![]() ![]() Donte has darker skin and Trey has lighter coloured skin. When an incident with a white student leads to Donte’s arrest and suspension, he’s sure the only way to get even is to beat the student at the school’s most valued game: fencing. With the help of a former Olympic fencer, Donte embarks on a journey to carve out a spot on the school’s fencing team and to find a way to make people at school see past the colour of his skin to who he really is.īlack Brother, Black Brother is a story about two teenage brothers with different coloured skin. ![]() Dubbed the ‘Black Brother’, Donte’s teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter skinned brother, Trey. ![]() Most of the students don’t look like him. As one of the few black boys at his school, he feels as if he is constantly swimming in whiteness. ![]() It is written by award-winning American author Jewell Parker Rhodes and published in the UK by Hachette.ĭonte wishes he were invisible. This is a powerful and thought-provoking story for teens about two brothers – one who presents as white, the other as Black – and the ways they are forced to navigate a world that doesn’t treat them equally. ![]()
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