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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Childress, Alice. A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich. Penguin Group, 2003. Paperback.

· In “Benjie Johnson” pages 9-15, Benjie explains why it is difficult to be a child where he lives.

· Only rich kids have the luxury of being children.

· Where Benjie lives, children get robbed, beaten, or sexually assaulted.

· Benjie complains that people call him a drug addict.

· He does not believe that he is an addict, and he was especially hurt when his friend Jimmy-Lee called him an addict and tried to get him to quit.

· He has gone several days without drugs without a problem.

· Benjie lives with his mother, grandmother, and Butler Craig, who would be his stepfather if he was married to Benjie’s mother.

· Butler works as a janitor.

· The only reason that Benjie mainlined was because...

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