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    Team Seven
    Audiobook8 hours

    Team Seven

    Written by Marcus Burke

    Narrated by Arnell Powell, Simone Cook and James Shippy

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    About this audiobook

    Set in the town of Milton, Team Seven follows young Andre Battel from age eight through his teenage years as he grows away from his Jamaican family, discovers genuine prowess on the basketball court, and eventually falls into a routine of dealing drugs for the local street gang, Team Seven. The story is told primarily through Andre's voice, but we also see things through the voices and points of view of his mother Ruby, a hard-working medical secretary, his older sister Nina, his mostly not-there-/usually-drunk-and-high father Eddie, a halfhearted reggae musician, and Reggie and Smoke, the kingpins of competing drug crews. What emerges is a rich portrait of a black family, a black community, and one young boy/man poised between youthful innocence and ambiguous experience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMay 27, 2014
    ISBN9781629236445
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    Team Seven
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    Marcus Burke

    Marcus Burke grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. He attended prep school at Brimmer and May and played basketball at Susquehanna University, where he played varsity for all four years. But a knee injury limited his playing time, so he took up fiction writing instead and was accepted at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he was awarded a grant in honor of James Alan McPherson from the University of Iowa MacArthur Foundation Fund. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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    • 4/5
      Team Seven is a young adult novel recommend for grades nine and up.This book got off to a slow start. For the first fourth or so, I wondered what the plot was supposed to be. It wasn’t bad, just disjointed. One reason was that the narrative switched somewhat awkwardly between several characters. After the first part, the story was told mostly from Andre’s point of view and the pace quickened.The author grew up in the same area of Boston where Andre and his family lived so I’m assuming that his portrayal of Andre’s life is realistic. His story is about how easy it is for a good kid to make bad choices when in certain environments. I liked Andre and kept rooting for him to do the right things. He rarely listened to me though! If you pick up Team Seven, make sure you hang in there past the first bit – it will be worth it.