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I picked this one up on a whim in the school library and couldn't put it down.


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Born In Sin Evelyn Coleman Books Reviews

Fifteen-year-old Keisha lives with her mother, seventeen year old sister Rhenda, Rhenda's two year old baby, and Punky her brother. They don't have much money but they love each other and work hard to survive under their near poverty conditions. Keisha does well at school and wants very much to become a doctor. In fact with the help of her Biology teacher she has applied to nearby Avery University for a scholarship in their premed summer program. Unbeknownst to her, Ms. Hill the counselor at school has changed Keisha's curriculum track from college prep to general which disqualifies her for the premed program. When Keisha finds out she looses her temper and makes a dive for Ms. Hill's wig, pulling it off and creating a scene in the office. Once everything settles down it is decided that Keisha will attend a daily summer camp for "at risk" kids. Keisha never forgets her dream of attending Avery over the summer, but soon finds that she will have to postpone her plans until the fall if she can just come up with the money. Her mother says not to worry they will manage some how. Meanwhile, Keisha learns how to swim and soon discovers that she is a natural who wins every race. The local swim coach persuades Keisha and her friend Betty to join the team and gives them hope for the Olympics. This is a wonderful story that rings true with every word. It's the sort of book that you can't put down because the characters are so real and you want to find out what's going to happen to them.
I chose to read Born in Sin, because of the title. I like drama and assumed the pages would be overflowing with it. Instead of drama Evelyn Coleman takes us on an emotional sometimes-witty rollercoast ride with Keisha Wright and her friends at a program called At-Risk Kids. At Risk is for poor teens Born in Sin as Keisha puts it. Keisha aspired to attend Avery University and become the families' first doctor. When she receives her letter of acceptance, she quickly realizes that she doesn't have the money needed to attend. Keisha doesn't believe her mom can get the deposit for school and in her 14-yr. old mind she doesn't want to make her mom feel bad so she tries to hide the letter.
Betty Shabazz is also an At Risk kid. To get away from her drug addict mom and alcoholic stepfather she befriends Keisha, taking up for her whenever she's around. The first activity the kids learn is how to swim, while in the water Betty goes out much too far, and has a near fatal accident. At that moment Keisha decides she is going to learn to swim. `Cause the next black person I saw drowning, I wanted to be able to save'em myself". Betty craves for attention and love and she goes looking for it in all the wrong places. Again she is at the depths of near death. Keisha and Betty learn how to swim, they are very good at it, so much so they believe they are going to the Olympics, with the help of the team coach, Mr. Walt.
With so much turmoil and disappointments in her life, and Betty no longer able to swim, Keisha decides that dreaming and believing isn't for black kids. After joining the swim team and making it as one of the anointed ones she gives up, until she receives a letter from Malik Shabazz, Betty's brother. Giving Keisha what she needs to go on, inspiration and romantic hope.
This book is for anyone and everyone who has a dream or simply had one and lost it. Keisha and her At Risk friends will show you that dreams come in all sizes.
Evelyn Coleman is a wonderful storyteller. The voice of Keisha was one I will always carry around with me.
Reviewed by Missy
Keisha is a 14 years old African American girl who is living in the housing project and is surrounded by drug dealers and criminals. Keisha is very smart and she has big dreams for her future, but living in a community where not many people believe in dreams due to lack of opportunity; she struggles to maintain her goals for the future.
Family, sex & drugs, education & opportunity, dreams, social reproduction, and etc.

Life is full of negativity and once you have a dream, don’t let know one regardless of race or position tell you that you can’t achieve your dream.
13+

I choose this book randomly from csu library, I just picked it up without reading it and it had a blank cover so I had no idea what it was about. I just really liked the title- and I’m glad I was drawn to it!
The writing is not as good as the one in “Darkest Child” because it was simplistic in text and form but it might be better for a lower age range to read it. I think the treatment of the subject (education as equalizer, dreams, etc.) was really great because I took sociology and the writer brought things about social reproduction- all the African Americans keep on thinking that their lives won’t get better, even if one person has the opportunity to change many of them don’t think it’ll happen so they end up living in continuous poverty! The author did a great job of presenting that theory through some of the characters’ lives (like betty and Jebbie) but the author also placed a foot into achieving one’s dream-basically that African Americans can do something great with their lives and should take any opportunity that comes and be strong enough to overcome negativity from their peers and community and the authorities. I also liked how the idea of family was portrayed in this book. Keisha’s mom was a kick ass mom but she loved her children and won’t let anyone lay a hand on them-whether to rape or assault or get them pregnant in any way shape or form! She was also a great supporter for Keisha-even though at times she didn’t have money to get Keisha into the university prep program. This mom had her daughter’s dream and I feel this is important because most African American novels show how dysfunction the family is and how the characters get in prison or take the wrong path and get pregnant and don’t get educated as a result. This book had none of that. It is a good book that shows that blacks can have a strong supporting family and that they do care about education-even though most people think blacks are lazy and don’t care for education. It dispelled a lot of myths along those lines. The characters were developed well and there were always ones that succeeded (Keisha & Malik) while others who didn’t (Betty and Rhanda) so I think it was realistic because the everyday life for blacks is a struggle and not many escape that gang and drugs and street life. The only problem I saw with the book is the fact that Hakim was Keisha’s dad, I just felt that the author included that for a 360 happy ending-but I thought the book could’ve done without that and it’d still be a happy ending-that revelation just came too fast and felt a bit forced. I think this is a book that should be taught in school because it will have a positive influence on African Americans/minorities and dispelled stereotypes from both the black and white readers. Oh the book is also written in “african American language”. I don’t want to use the word “ghetto” but yea. I didn’t mind because it made it more realistic.
I was interested because it was one of the few fiction books about competitive swimming, but the writing style was horrible. I didn't even make it through the first chapter (does it even have chapters - I don't remember) before I donated it to the local library -)
I picked this one up on a whim in the school library and couldn't put it down.