PLENTY GOOD ROOM
Winner of the New York Public Library
Best Books for the Teen Years Award
Winner of the New York Public Library
Best Books for the Teen Years Award
When Bay Dawson’s best friend and older brother are both shot to
death in Harlem, his mother decides to send him away from the
dangers of the big city. She packs him off to Jacksonville, Florida to
live with the father he has never known - a well-to-do slumlord
with a penchant for easy women, expensive cars, and Frank Sinatra
tunes. Told in the blunt language of a street-wise but vulnerable
teenager, Plenty Good Room is the gripping story of Bay’s attempts
to fit into his new life. At first palmed off on his mother’s eccentric
southern relatives, Bay finally manages to win himself a tentative
place in his father’s household. But the struggle to reclaim his
father’s love turns out to be much harder than he had imagined,
and mounting family troubles take their toll on Bay’s faltering self-
esteem. His expectations and hopes are crushed, and he sets off on
a course for disaster.
Winner of the New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen
Years Award, Plenty Good Room is a funny, tragic, exhilarating
look at a family on the brink of self-destruction.
death in Harlem, his mother decides to send him away from the
dangers of the big city. She packs him off to Jacksonville, Florida to
live with the father he has never known - a well-to-do slumlord
with a penchant for easy women, expensive cars, and Frank Sinatra
tunes. Told in the blunt language of a street-wise but vulnerable
teenager, Plenty Good Room is the gripping story of Bay’s attempts
to fit into his new life. At first palmed off on his mother’s eccentric
southern relatives, Bay finally manages to win himself a tentative
place in his father’s household. But the struggle to reclaim his
father’s love turns out to be much harder than he had imagined,
and mounting family troubles take their toll on Bay’s faltering self-
esteem. His expectations and hopes are crushed, and he sets off on
a course for disaster.
Winner of the New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen
Years Award, Plenty Good Room is a funny, tragic, exhilarating
look at a family on the brink of self-destruction.
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When He Hollers, Let Him Go
May 2006
May 2006