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In preschool, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.
Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.
Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important graphic memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.
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Family & Relationships, Sociology, Young Adult Nonfiction, Family problems, Children of drug addicts, Dysfunctional families, Graphic novels, Cartoons and comics, Biography, Absentee fathers, Families, Grandparents as parents, Juvenile literature, Comic books, strips, Authors, american, Authors, juvenile literature, New York Times reviewed, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Biography, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Topics)People
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Hey, kiddo
2018, Graphix, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
in English
- First edition.
0545902479 9780545902472
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Links outside Open Library
- StudioJKK - young adult books by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- In 'Hey, Kiddo,' Jarrett Krosoczka Sketches Childhood, A Mom's Addiction
- Hey, Kiddo - National Book Foundation
- A Brave Graphic Memoir of a Childhood Shadowed by a Parent’s Addiction
- Jarrett J. Krosockza Details How Addiction Affected His Family In 'Hey, Kiddo'
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- Created March 7, 2020
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