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//Blood Is Thicker// Scholastic Inc, 2004, 169pp. Paul Langan & D. M. Blackwell

Hakeem Randall just learned that his father is sick and his parents can no longer afford their home. Now his family has to move to his uncle’s house in faraway Detroit. Things go from bad to worse when Hakeem is forced to share a room with his moody cousin Savon. Once childhood friends, now they are ready to go to war with each other, and the outcome of the battle promises to change their lives forever. I think that this was a great book. This book is part of a series, so if you read this book before the ones that come before it, then it might not make any sense to you. This has a lot conflicts that have relation to Hakeem and Savon. I think that there is an important moral in this story that every reader should understand. Hakeem is very close to his everyday family including his seven-year-old twin sisters Charlene and Charmaine, his mom Selma Randall, his father Henry Randall. On the other hand, Savon didn’t get along with his everyday family consisting of his mother Lorraine and his father James. Overall, things changed between both families. I would recommend this book to any reader that a