The Boy in the Black Suit
by Reynolds, Jason
BCCB Blue Ribbon BookCoretta Scott King Award/HonorsGriefBlack PeopleYALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults12Junior Library Guild SelectionNew York
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AR Book Level
4.8
AR Points
10
Word Count
67,181
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
171390 EN
About this book
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man. Story has profanity and mild violence. Themse include alcoholism.