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Language English Publication date March 18, 2008 Originally published 18 March 2008 Award Coretta Scott King Award Illustrator E. B. Lewis | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publisher Square Fish Preceded by The Way a Door Closes ISBN 9780805072020 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Similar Hope Anita Smith books, African Americans books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keeping the night watch by hope anita smith ala book talk
Keeping the Night Watch is a children's poetry book written by Hope Anita Smith and illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Published by Square Fish Books as the sequel to Smith's The Way a Door Closes, it was a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book and appeared on several best children's book lists in 2009.
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The book is a series of poems from the perspective of thirteen-year-old C.J. Washington III, the narrator from Smith's 2003 poetry book The Way a Door Closes. While the prequel captures the experiences and emotions of a family abandoned by their father, Keeping the Night Watch explores C.J.'s subsequent struggles with the unexpected return of his father and expands on intersecting issues of adolescence, poverty, and urban life.
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