Miracle's Boys

By Jacqueline Woodson

Categories: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

Miracle's Boys is a novel for young readers by Jacqueline Woodson about three brothers in Harlem after the death of their mother, Milagro. Twelve-year-old Lafayette lives with his oldest brother Ty'ree, who gave up college to raise him, and his middle brother Charlie, newly home from a juvenile detention center and changed. Told by Lafayette, the story follows the brothers as they struggle with grief, guilt and anger and try to hold their family together.

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• John Green: “Jacqueline Woodson's "Miracle's Boys". This novel is ostensibly for kids ten and up, and I know many kids who've loved it, but I am a forty-four-year-old person and I also love it.”