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| 4 stars Criminal or kid? Murderer or misunderstood?
In this graphic novel based on a true story, eleven-year-old Roger tells about the life of his classmate Robert, a young boy nicknamed Yummy. Yummy, like many other kids in the inner city, never had a real childhood. He was taken away from his abusive drug addict mother at a young age and lived with his elderly grandmother. His grandmother loved Yummy, but with 19 others living with her, she had little money or time to give him. Yummy could come and go as he pleased and often did - leaving his home for days at a time. Before long Yummy found a place he could belong - where he would be taken care of if he just followed their orders and proved his worth. Yummy joined the Black Disciples, the same gang the narrator's brother, Gary, belonged to.
Yummy begins his venture as a member of one of Chicago's toughest gangs with a petty crime spree - shoplifting, fighting, breaking and entering, and stealing cars. Yummy never planned on killing anyone - despite having been given a gun by his gang. He only meant to scare away a few rival gang members hanging in their 'hood. When Yummy fires his gun as a warning to others, the stray bullet hits and kills a sweet, innocent young girl who was only sitting outside her apartment.
Suddenly, Yummy is on the run - an 11 year old boy now wanted for murder. Yummy trusted his gang to take care for him, and he couldn't understand why everyone now hated him and wanted him captured. He wasn't a killer. It was just a mistake. Yummy would give anything to take it back and give the pretty young girl, Shavon, her life back...
Roger thinks he knows his classmate Yummy, but he suddenly realizes life is not white and black. Yummy could be ruthless and mean, but he also was still just a lonely little kid who never had a chance for a good life. When Yummy is captured and killed - not by the police but by his own gang family-Roger realizes the young girl Shavon is not the only victim in this tragic turn of events. |
The book I am going to tell you about is called Yummy. Their is a boy named Robert but they call him Yummy and he is in a gang called the Black Disciples. They call him Yummy because he likes to eat sweets. Well he likes a girl named Shavon. One day he was walking down her rode and she was outside. He wanted to impress her, so he pulled out a gun and started to fire it. Somehow he shot her and when he realized he shot her, he was so sad, everybody was. The copes were looking for him but they never could fine him. So one day ,one of his friends that was in the gang said that the monster (leader) wanted to see him. They was lien to him because actually they were going to kill him for killing Shavon. So when they got him out the car, hey shot him in the head and had ran over him. Then the police finally find him dead.
ReplyDeleteYummy was a troubled kid who just needed some guidence but he did not get it so he decided to join a gang that lead to him geting a gun.They gang members was suppose to be has brothers but one day yummy accidently shoot a girl and the police start ask everbody questions.So at first has so called brothers were helping hide but the couldnt take the heat no more so they beat him up so bad that the killed him.
ReplyDeleteAbout a 11 year old boy named Yummy, who grew up in a dangerous neighborhood. He was really sweet and polite. Then one day, he decides to join a gang, and then he joins it. The gang members gave him a gun as a welcome present. So Yummy was very excited and he tries to impress a girl that he really likes. And does something that he didn't mean to do, shoots her. Everybody is mad and scared because he is dangerous. The police are looking for him and suspects he's armed. His gang members says they have his back through all of this, but then turn against him and ends up killing Yummy.
ReplyDeleteThe book is about a boy name Yummy. He is 11 years old and his brother is in a gang called the Black Desipicals. Yummy wants to be like his brother and get a name for himself, so he goes to the gang leader and they call him monster. Yummy had to say a pledge to the gang to get in and he had to get his hand cut. Yummy finally got what he wanted, in the gang. He went in the streets and starting shooting and not knowing what he was doing and killed a friend that he knew. He starting breaking in houses, stealing cars, and killing more people. Once he started doing that he earned his name "little killer". He went on the run and the gang members was trying to help him hide. But Yummy got tired of being that bad kid and called his grandma and asked her to come and get him... but it was too late for that. The gang members came and picked him up and told him monster wanted to see him. They took him to a tunnel by a rail road track and......... shot and killed 11 year old Yummy. This is a good book!
ReplyDeleteI read the book YUMMY. That was the best book i have ever read. I think that his parents had a lot to do with how he acted. Also he should have not entered that gang at such a young age. Yummy never had a good life but he was the one who made his choices. His parents were both in jail and they never wanted yummy. yummy never felt any love by any one. That is why yummy made some bad choices in his life.
ReplyDeletethe book yummy is about this kid who has to live with his grand ma who has to take care of so many kids that when yummy leaves for days she does't notice he is gone so he joins a gang to feel that he has a family so he has to pledge so he was gonna kill his rivaled gang members so he accidentally dentally kills a girl... yummy was a realy good book.
ReplyDeleteI read Yummy, and it was the best book i ever read. i thought that it was good because it showed me what gangs can do in your life and how good people die for know reason at all. Yummy made some bad choices in his life and saw the results in them. Then i think his parents seen that what they was doing/had done and been in they life was not helping him at all.
ReplyDeleteThe book i read was called yummy it was about this boy that was in a gang called black disciples. they called him yummy because he eats so many candy bars he is a short 11 year old. All yummy wanted was to be in a gang so he went to the black disciples and asked if he could join and they made him say some words and then cut his can and then he was apart of them they were family. His gang so called family gave him a job to do it was to kill a rivil gang member but instead of killing a rivil he missed and shot one of his friends that was on the street that day. so then yummy was on the run and his "family" had enough of it so they killed him right then and there
ReplyDeleteThe book Yummy IS A great book. It happens when a little boy named Yummy wanted to be a shorty, so he went to monster because he wanted to be in the his gang and monster let him. Yummy wanted to show his gang that he was bad. When he did he kill'd a little girl. The gang help'd him hide then they got tired of it so the trick'd him an took him some were an his own gang members kill'd him. Then they had a funeral THE END.
ReplyDeleteThe book Yummy is a pretty good book . The book was about a eleven year old boy names Yummy who got into a gang called the black Disciples and one day a person from another gang was hanging around one of the areas that the disciples hang out at and tried to shot him but acceidentaly shot a girl named shavon and ran away and throughout the book it talks about how every one didnt expect tht out of him and one day he descided that he didnnt want to hidde anymore so he called his grandma for her to pick him up but th eblack disciples saw him and told him that the lead gangter wanted to see him they took him to an ally and ran him over .
ReplyDeleteThe book, Yummy, is a good book. It's about a small 11 year old boy that was tired of being small. So he joined a gang called The Black Disciples. He wanted to show monster how tough he could be. So he ran into the rival gang on his land and tried to shoot them, but missed and shot a little girl. For the next few weeks, the gang was hiding Yummy from the police, but they felt that Yummy had costed them enough trouble so they shot him. Some people were glad a trouble maker like Yummy was killed, but some people realized that he was just a lost little boy with no where else to go.
ReplyDeleteThe book, Yummy, is an OK book. Yummy is about and 11 year old boy, who was abandon by his mother and father because they were both in jail for most of their lives. He was sent to live with his grandma and about 17 other grandkids. He got tired of being small so he joined a gang called The Black Disciples. He wants to impress Monster, the leader of the gang, so he can be promoted to a deputy. To prove how "bad" he was, he went to the streets to face one of his gang rivals. He tried to shoot them but he couldn't shoot straight. Instead he missed one of his rivals and instead shot a girl he went to school with, Shavon. The gang was hiding Yummy for weeks but eventually turned on him and killed him so they wouldn't have to deal with the problem. Yummy was just a confused little boy with no guidence to steer him in the right path.
ReplyDeleteThe book Yummy is a great book.Yummy is about an 11 year old boy that always gets into trouble. On the streets Yummy is a bad boy but at home he is a normal 11 year old boy. Yummy is on the run the whole book when the cops finally find him he is dead and they catch the boys that killed him.
ReplyDeleteThe book Yummy was a very sad book. It is about a boy named Yummy who joins a gang called the Black Disciples.his parents are in jail so he lives with his grandma. While trying to scare off enemy gangs he shoots a girl. The police go after him. His gang tries to hide him. Eventually they had enough of him, so they shoot and kill him. I thought yummy was very interesting and sad.
ReplyDeleteThe book Yummy is such a great book. It's about a little 11 year old boy name Yummy, Yummy is a normal kid but he became a big problem when he shot this little 14 year old girl name Shaven. Yummy ran away from home cause he didn't want to get coght by the cops, but then one of Yummy gang members shoots Yummy and now Yummy is gone, and so the cops look for the gang members. This book is very interesting and you ask so many questions to your self and its very sad, but true. Every bad person that is in a gang should read this book because this book gives you big thing to think about, because if someone does the same thing they will get into some serious trouble". "It teaches you a lesson"!
ReplyDeleteYummy is a really good book! it's about an eleven year old boy who get's mixed up in the wrong crowd and ends up losing his life and taking another. I really like the book because it shows how any good person could get involved in a bad scene and not meaning to just their at the wrong time. I think anybody who never thinks before their actions should read this book it shows you that you don't have to make bad choices just because your life's not going the way you want it to be or your having a bad day. Yummy was a good boy but because of his neighborhood and the people he was surrounded by he made the wrong choice by joining a gang .
ReplyDeleteI chose to do my blog on book yummy. I it about an 1 year old boy who everyone calls shorty. he wanted to impress people so they would stop picking on him, so he joined a gang, the same one his brother is in and when he started it he had to do a pledge and get his hand cut. He thought he had to shoot people in order to impress his gang members and one day when he was shooting he shoot one of his friends named Shavon. He kept on shooting and bothering people until one day he as killed. He was killed by his own gang members, his brother and Derrick.
ReplyDeletethe book i'm choosing to blog about is YUMMY . The book is about an 11 year old kid who basicly wants to kinda fit in. he wants to be in a gang called the Black Disciples . he wants to impress the gang members so he shots a 14 year old on accident . He knew the 14 year old her name was Shavon . Shavon had some very big dreams she had plans to be a hair dresser one day . Shavon's Family was shocked , because shavon and yummy where very close friends . Yummy had really messed up, but not in the Black Disciples eye the thought it was good enough so .. the leader of the Black Disciples (monster) Said he Had to Say A pledge he Said the pledge an they cut his hand he was now a part of the gang it was crazy .. he was still in the run for killing shavon but .. he just did what he had to do to stay in the group .. than he just had gave up Monster wanted Yummy to visit hi s in a tunnel so derek took him to meet monster .... a week later police found 11 yr old Yummy DEAD under A bridge ...... i really enjoyed this book !!! ~ R.i.p Yummy ~ But Im Sure He Learned A Lesson
ReplyDeleteThis book is sad,heartbreaking, and shows you how well you really know your "friends" or so to say.This 11yr old was taken down roads that i dont think any other child could think of and yes,he made a mistake like everyone else and killed a child and his price to pay was death.besides his grandma,he had no love in his life and looked for it in the wrong places and thought he found it gang banging.this young boy teaches you a lesson about how one terrible mistake can havde a domino affect on the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteyummy he is a boy grown up on the wrong side. yummy was an 11 year old boy many peaple didnt understand yummy cause he was a crimenl and innocet. the murder of young girl shavon, said to be a accident, but thats not what the cops think. now yummy is one the run going to abandon places to another the crew that yummy hung around with was the cause of all this. then yummy wanted to be turned in but was killed by his own friends. R.I.P yummy maybe you should have been raised right and stayed out of troulbe.
ReplyDeleteI read the book Yummy and it's about a boy names Yummy and he joins a gang at 11 and they give him a gun. They call him their family. One day he finds another gangs' members playing a game in his gangs territory, so he shoots...missing the other gang members and hitting a 14 year-old girl. Then Yummy has to go on the run from the cops; his gang members moving from one safe house to another. Eventually his gang members find him too much trouble and as his grandmother is on her way to pick him up his other gang members show up and decide to take him 'somewhere'. They shoot Yummy in his forehead. At the funeral -Yummys funeral- they put all sorts of his favorite candy in is coffin.
ReplyDeleteYummy is a book about a kid named Robert Sandifer... a.k.a. Yummy. He has shot a girl on accident and he is on the run. In the beginning of the book, the narrator is telling about his past and his current homelife. After that it picks up where the narrator left off in the beginning, when Yummy kills Shavon Dean. In the end his so-called family, the Black Disciples, shoot him because it was way too hard to hide him because he was such a big story on the news and the cops were constently on the hunt for this young killer. I liked this book but it wasn't reallymuch of a story to me, I mean, it told about his past most of the time but the actual STORY was about 11% of the whole entire book. I rate it 3 stars.
ReplyDeletei love this book so many twist and turns. I cant beleave how it ends and how he's hommies did him the way they did.It is so crazy the way yummy was brought up,the way his parents treated him and how his fathr was never there. I hope that kids will finally realize that thats not the way you want to live.
ReplyDeleteThis short comic-style book really made me think. It was a very good, yet sad story, about a little boy named Yummy. Yummy is an 11-year-old boy who grew up in a bad neighborhood with parents that did nothing good for him. He gets involved with the Black Disciples gang and accidentally shoots and kills an innocent 14-year-old girl named Shavon. This starts a massive man-hunt (or "boy-hunt") for this scared little boy and you see him show his age a little bit more. By the end he ends up deciding to stop hiding and he calls his granny to come pick him up but before she is able to get there, two guys come pick him up to supposedly help him hide but really betray him in an alley and he is found dead. At Yummy's funeral, people leave him candy and the narrator, Roger, wonders what happens to him when he dies. This book really made me feel sympathetic towards Yummy because it wasn't his fault he was so awful. He was only a kid, and he got caught up in this gang and all his life was betrayed and taken advantage of. I really enjoyed this book.
ReplyDeleteI have just finished the book Yummy and it’s a really good book. Yummy Get his name because of his addiction to sweets. When Yummy killed Shavon it was bad for Yummy because everybody was looking for him. Everybody said it was just a mistake and others thought that he did it on purpose. Since Yummy killed Shavon it was bad for the gang Yummy was in. Yummy was supposed to go with his grandma so that she could protect him but the gang Yummy was told him that they were going to take him out of town. They didn’t they actually took him and killed Yummy. Yummy had a funeral. And after that everybody just went on with their regular lives.
ReplyDeleteYummy was a good book. Its about about a boy who joined a gang and was told to kill someone one he did. He finally told his grandpa he was going out of town with his gang for them to protect him. They ended up killing Yummy.IT wasnt yummys falt he was so bad, he just hung out with the wrong crowd at the wrong time.
ReplyDeleteYummy is such a good book and i recommend it to all my peers. Yummy is a 11-year-old boy and he joins a gang and this guy told him that if he wanted to be in the gang he had to kill someone, and so he did. Yummy killed a innocent 14-year-old girl name Shavon. Now Yummy is on the run and hes very scared that he will end up just like is dad. Yummy made a very bad choice.
ReplyDeleteyummy was a very good book. i liked it because it told a story of a young boy who got caught up in todays gang related terror. it was about an 11 year old boy in a gang and he has to prove him self so he shoots a girl and the cops come after him
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this book very much althought the ending was kind of upseting. This little boy,not even a teenager yet joins a gang and in order to prove himself he goes out shooting and accidentally shoots a little girl. The cops come after him and the gang does not want to get in trouble so they tell Yummy that they are there to take him to a safehouse kind of thing. They then take him and shoot him so that the cops don't take him. His mom actually comes to his funeral along with his grandmother. The ending made me cry.
ReplyDeleteYummy is a book about a little eleven year old boy who grew up in the streets of Chicago where there is a lot of violence.this little boy grew up without a mother because she was on drugs and DSS took all her kids away and now he lives with his grandmother who doesn't pay any attention to him so he runs off and joins a gang. he was very aggressive and sense he was so young he got to do all the crimes with little or no trouble. so one day he saw that some rival gang members were in there territory and so yummy shot at them and he hit a little girl he knew and now hes running from the cops. so while yummy is running from the cops the other gang members find him catches him and shoots him in the head.that was the end of Yummy's life i hope that this books speaks to kids and tell them not to get caught up in gang activity.
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Yummy is a book about a young boy-and everyone in the neighborhood knows him. He's always causing trouble...But yummy has a bad home life-and I believe that is the reason that most kids get themselves into trouble, so that they can get some attention from their parents. And that was one of the things a liked most about this book. Yummy lived with his grandma that was taking care of him...and many more of her grandchildren. So yummy never got much attention(as I stated earlier-is why I believe he got into so much trouble). So one day yummy had joined this gang called the "Black Disciples". The Black Disciples made yummy feel like he had a family, by being a part of their gang...and that was all yummy REALLY wanted deep down in his heart. So one day-trying to impress his friends he shot his gun at a kid, but missed and shot a little girl instead. So yummy was on the run, from the police. The Black Disciples tried to keep yummy hidden in old abandoned houses until the whole thing "blew over" but finally they got impatient with him. shot him, and left him for dead. Great ending huh..
ReplyDeleteI'm not really into graphic novels but this was a good story line, and it's sad but it makes you appreciate what you have...
Yummy is a book about an eleven year old boy that is on the run for killing a girl name shavon because some of the people was in his territory and he started shooting and shavon house was on that block she was hit by a bullet on accident.That when Yummy had rely miss up this time because everybody hated him. Her mother was upset because she knew Yummy since he was little.Yummy was with a group call and he was later kill by his own group because he was too much of a problem.So i really like this book it was a fast pace book with lot of interesting event. I would like if everybody read this book because it teach u a lesson about Violence and remember never be in gang activity
ReplyDeleteyummy last days of a south side shorty is about a boy named yummy who when he was growing up he had terrible parents his parents were in and out of jail so yummy had to stay with his grandmother but instead yummy was around the streets being bad and one day he shot this girl named Shavon because he was a member of the gang the black disciples and so yummy ran away and hid but at the end of the story a member of the black disciples kills his own gang member
ReplyDeleteyummy was a good book. Yummy is a eleven year old boy that killed a young girl and i one of the most wanted murderes everywhere. so the book is mostly about him on the run and then he joins a gang . in the end the gang killed him
ReplyDeleteYummy is a very unguided little boy. He was eleven and killed his friends. He joined a gang and they were bad. He was a murderer and was on the run. At the end the so called gang "friends" shot and killed the poor little Yummy
ReplyDeleteI for one this was a very good book. I loved how the boy told the story thruogh his eyes. And it was sad how his own gang members took him out. Even though killing that girl was an accident, he still shouldn't have been involed with that gang. He was just eleven so young. But I still think this is a great book!
ReplyDeleteYummy was about a boy who killed his friends, he joined a gang and it influenced him to be bad. At the end he gets shot himself.
ReplyDeleteYummy was very intense for me, the whole story and plot made me cry like 3 times! i usually dont like comics but this one was very heartbreaking!!! yummy was a very disobediant child who liked to act like he was a gangster, he was always trying to show off but this time he took it to far. some of yummys rivals were playing on his field, so he took out his gun and shot. he wasnt aiming for anyone but when the crowed moved out He saw agirl lying on the floor dead! Yummys battle for security begins.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't like comics but Yummy was a really good book. It's about a boy named Yummy who thinks of himself of a thug and joins the Black Disiples. The leader of the gang tells Yummy that he has to prove himself. So Yummy goes out, and kills a girl. He was aiming at a boy that was on a hitlist but he missed. Then, the cops were on a hunt to find Yummy. And he was only a 14 year old boy that acted like one the worst people in the gang. It was a very good book.
ReplyDeleteYummy is about a boy named Yummy who gets influence by the bad streets of Chicago and he joins the gang called the Black Disciples. In his gang, they have a rivals. One day, Yummy saw one of the rivals playing. He accidentaly hits a girl named Shavon. He then is on the run and becomes one of the worst member of his gang. His gang tries to hide him but they get arrested by the police. They then come and get him, take him to an abandoned tunnel, and shoots him dead. This book is so good because it shows you how the streets can really affect you.
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