An NAACP Image Award Finalist
An ALA/YALSA Alex Award Nominee
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Hannah Weyer is a filmmaker whose narrative and documentary films have been screened at the Human Rights Watch and the New York Film Festivals and have won awards at the Sundance, Locarno, Melbourne, Doubletake, and South by Southwest Film Festivals. Her screenwriting credits include Life Support (2007), directed by Nelson George, which earned a Golden Globe Award for its lead actress, Queen Latifah. Weyer has worked with teens in the media arts for the past fifteen years and, along with her husband, the filmmaker Jim McKay, started an after-school film club at a public high school in Brooklyn. On the Come Up is her first novel.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An NAACP Image Award FinalistAn ALA/YALSA Alex Award NomineeAnnMarie is growing up fast. After years of living in foster homes and homeless shelters, the twelve-year-old girl can take care of herself and her ailing mother. At thirteen, she's competing with other girls for the attention of older boys in the hip hop and rap scene of Far Rockaway. At fourteen, she is in love and pregnant, but dreaming big. Taking a chance, she auditions for an independent film andastonishinglylands a lead role. As she tries to raise her baby girl and make sense of her relationship with her baby's father, her work on the movie offers AnnMarie a doorway to a wider worldBrooklyn, Manhattan, and the Sundance Film Festival. With cinematic pacing and a vibrant voice, filmmaker Hannah Weyers unforgettable debut novel is a portrait of a tough, determined teenage girl striving to find the life she wants and the love she deserves. Dreaming of a world beyond her urban neighborhood, pregnant teenager AnnMarie Walker lands a lead role for a movie being filmed in Manhattan and enjoys instant but short-lived fame before the realities of her regular life return. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780345804860
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