Amiri & Odette

A retelling of Swan Lake set in an urban housing project, where Amiri tries to free Odette from a drug dealer's hold.

Themes

First love·Addiction & incarceration

Mood

Feels dark, tense.

More by Walter Dean Myers

Street Love2006

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