Chapter Book · Ages 12–+ · 2012
Discovering Wes Moore
By Wes Moore
Two fatherless boys from one neighborhood share a name but not a fate.
176 pages· 36,173 words· Est. 4 hour read
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Summary: Wes Moore grew up without a father in Baltimore and became a Rhodes Scholar, Army veteran and governor. Another boy with the same name, from the same neighborhood, is serving a life sentence for murder. After the author wrote to the other Wes Moore, letters and visits turned into a friendship, and he asks which choices and circumstances set their lives apart. A young readers' version of The Other Wes Moore.


