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257:, where he supported himself and his son by working as a crane operator, truck driver, and scrap-metal salvager. Jess's father was a voracious reader who introduced his son to books at a very early age. Jess Mowry attended a public school, but despite his love of reading, was not an above-average student. He dropped out of school at age thirteen, part way through the eighth grade. After leaving school, Mowry worked with his father in the scrap-iron business and, in his late teens, moved to Arizona to work as a truck driver and 1374: 25: 515:) is set in Oakland, California and the Sacramento River Delta. 13-year-old Bilal was raised as a Muslim but is questioning his faith. Having fallen victim to gang violence in Oakland, he is sent to live with cousins in a small rural town where he encounters some of the worst but much of the best of traditional American values. 370:
in Africa. As Mowry’s puts it: "Almost all my stories and books are for and about Black kids who are not always cute and cuddly. My characters often spit, sweat, and swear, as well as occasionally smoke or drink. Just like their real-world counterparts, some are overweight, may look too Black, or are
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Jess Mowry emerged during the mid-1990s as one of America's most original and important—yet relatively unheralded—Black writers. His low profile is as much a matter of personal preference as of any lack of merit or of public interest in his writing. Mowry has declined to take the easy way, refusing
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was also published in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. It was optioned for a film, for which Mowry co-wrote the screenplay. The film, under the same title, was produced by Redeemable Features in 2000 with director Adam Davidson and
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Returning to Oakland in the early 1980s, Mowry began working with kids at a youth center, reading to them and often making up stories because there were very few books to which inner-city youth could relate. Later, he began to write the stories. In 1988, Mowry sent one of his stories to Howard
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to be seduced by fame or money into writing the kind of Black ghetto fiction that mainstream publishers seem to want. Instead, Mowry remains socially committed and aware; he prefers doing things his way as he works to improve the lives and self-image of black street kids.
411:(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993 - Anchor/Doubleday, 1994 - Anubis 2012) After 13-year-old Corbitt Wainwright's father is imprisoned for attacking a white man in Mississippi, the boy sets out for Oakland, California—and a world even bleaker than the one he left behind. 405:(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992 - Harper, 1994 - Windstorm Creative, 2006 - Anubis, 2012) is set in Oakland, California: about young African-American teens trying to survive and make the right choices in a world of gangs, guns, drugs and violence. 151: 625:) is set in Los Angeles and Oakland, California in the near future. About a world slowly coming together in peace in the midst of ongoing climate change, yet in the U.S.A. there is a new-age form of slavery. 611:) is set in Oakland, California. 13-year-old Spencer Dray and his parents move from their West Oakland, California bungalow to a cottage in the Oakland hills next to a deserted and reputedly haunted mansion. 427:, throw a package out of his car window during a police chase. Hoping that the case holds money that will finally give them choices, they take it only to find that the package is filled with pure cocaine. 253:
mother. When he was only a few months old, his mother abandoned him, though this may have been understandable since Mississippi law at that time forbade interracial marriage. His father took Jess to
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otherwise unacceptable by superficial American values. Like on-the-real kids, they often live in dirty and violent environments, and are forced into sometimes unpleasant lifestyles."
217:. He has written eighteen books and many short stories for and about black children and teens in a variety of genres, ranging from inner-city settings to the forests of 597:) is set in the Caribbean. A Haitian boy and his four friends at sea at night in a small boat discover an abandoned cargo steamer apparently adrift for a hundred years. 1439: 417:(Henry Holt & Co. 1995 - Anubis, 2011) is set in Oakland, California. Two young teens attempt to solve a murder that took place on a train fifty years in the past. 569:) is set in the Arizona desert. A boy suspects that a seemingly nice middle-aged couple, his new next-door neighbors, are concealing a kidnapped child in their house. 433:(Windstorm Creative, 2000 - Anubis, 2011) is set in Haiti. An African-American woman travels to Haiti to fund a children's refuge but becomes enmeshed in a web of 1464: 1459: 1424: 555:) is set in Oakland, California. Two teachers and a junior-high student investigate dangerous paranormal incidents in a reputedly haunted Victorian mansion. 1454: 1449: 299: 53: 33: 1404: 1399: 1409: 1469: 287:
magazine in San Francisco. Junker rejected the tale but asked to see more work, and published the second story Jess sent. Mowry bought a 1923
661: 648: 608: 594: 580: 552: 532: 512: 462: 454: 1035: 443:(Windstorm Creative, 2007 - Anubis, 2011) is set in Oakland, California. A young teen boy flees a drug dealer and hides out in a graveyard. 1434: 1414: 566: 498: 480: 1315: 1307: 1096: 622: 126: 1429: 1419: 1335: 423:(Simon & Schuster, 1996 - Anubis, 2012) is set in Oakland, California. Two young teens, Pook and Dante, see Air Touch, a 465:) is set in Santa Cruz, California and explores the so-called childhood obesity epidemic; its commercial hype, self-serving 541:(Anubis, 2012) is set in Alaska. A multi-racial group of renegade ecologists fight a corporate scheme to dump toxic waste. 501:) is set in New Orleans, Louisiana: a group of young teens fight both supernatural and real-world evil using Voodoo magic. 107: 57: 49: 288: 79: 38: 291:
for eight dollars, and within a year, his work was appearing in literary magazines in the United States and abroad.
315: 395:(Holloway House, 1991 - Anubis, 2012) is set in Oakland, California in the late 1980s; the first wave of the U.S. 86: 42: 951: 583:) is set in the Arizona desert. Three boys resurrect a steam locomotive and solve a hundred-year-old mystery. 1238: 682: 206: 174: 93: 1394: 908: 897: 828: 75: 1389: 886: 254: 222: 283: 193: 302:
and was also published in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. In 1991, Mowry's first novel,
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Mowry's characters and settings range from gun-toting gang kids in Oakland and
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as an engineer aboard a tugboat and as an aircraft mechanic on
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