![]() It's a fast read and will appeal to teenagers looking for "problem" books. ×Close Hooray You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Flake 5.001Ratings 6 Want to read 1 Currently reading 1 Have read Donate this book to the Internet Archivelibrary. ![]() The book is written the way Raspberry and her friends speak, in a slangy street style with little subtlety but great rhythm. Flake Begging for Change ×Close An edition of Begging for Change(2003) Begging for Change by Sharon G. By the end of the book, the characters have all begun to reconcile and find happiness in unsurprising but honest and believable ways. But does this make her too much like her father for comfort? Raspberry's story sometimes takes a back seat to the often more interesting subplot of her friend Mal, who is biracial but gets so sick of the constant questions that she decides to be, as the new tattoo on her arm says, "100 % Black," causing all sorts of trouble with her family. Why does she have so much trouble while her friend Zora, whose father is a doctor, has it so easy? When Zora and her father take Raspberry home from the hospital that night, Rasp berry steals money from Zora's purse to try to even the score. ![]() For Raspberry, whose father is a homeless junkie and whose mother works hard to keep their apartment, this is the last straw. ![]() This sequel to Money Hungry opens with Raspberry Hill's mother in the hospital after her neighbor hit her over the head with a pipe. ![]()
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