Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty

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Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty

First edition (publ. Lee & Low Books)
Author	G. Neri
Illustrator	Randy DuBurke
Publisher	Lee and Low Books
Publication date	July 31, 2010

Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty is a 2010 graphic novel by Greg Neri with art by Randy DuBurke, published by Lee and Low Books. The story is about Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, who was eleven years old in 1994 when he became a fugitive from justice after killing a neighbor girl while he was shooting at somebody else during a gang initiation. Neri creates a fictional narrator who watches what happens to Yummy when he seeks help from the gang he is trying to impress. Instead, they turn on him when he becomes too much of a liability to them.