Description:"Becoming Jonika" explores inter-racial understanding through a young woman’s growing awareness of herself and the complexities of her culture. It is a gripping novel about coming of age during a time of cultural upheaval and re-imagination of the American dream. After Joni Byrnes meets nineteen-year-old Ishmael, she stops caring about home, school, and swim team. Instead, she embraces Ishmael’s hippy lifestyle of music, pot, and Hermann Hesse. When she sells marijuana for Ishmael, Joni gains notoriety as Joni Juana — but her newfound popularity ends in a bust. Ishmael goes to prison, but Joni avoids juvenile detention by agreeing to spend the summer of 1969 at Camp Saint Augustine of Hippo teaching inner-city black kids to swim.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Becoming Jonika. To get started finding Becoming Jonika, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: "Becoming Jonika" explores inter-racial understanding through a young woman’s growing awareness of herself and the complexities of her culture. It is a gripping novel about coming of age during a time of cultural upheaval and re-imagination of the American dream. After Joni Byrnes meets nineteen-year-old Ishmael, she stops caring about home, school, and swim team. Instead, she embraces Ishmael’s hippy lifestyle of music, pot, and Hermann Hesse. When she sells marijuana for Ishmael, Joni gains notoriety as Joni Juana — but her newfound popularity ends in a bust. Ishmael goes to prison, but Joni avoids juvenile detention by agreeing to spend the summer of 1969 at Camp Saint Augustine of Hippo teaching inner-city black kids to swim.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Becoming Jonika. To get started finding Becoming Jonika, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.