Playground

Name: Playground
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: 50 Cent
ISBN: 9781101539576

Author: 50 Cent

Narrator: Dwayne Clark, 50 Cent

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 11/01/2011

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Boys & Men

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Butterball doesn't have much going for him. He's teased about his weight. He hates the Long Island suburb his mom moved them to so she could go to nursing school and start her life over. He wishes he still lived with his dad in New York City - where there's always something happening, even if his dad doesn't have much time for him.

Still, that's not why he beat up Maurice on the playground.

Now his school is forcing him to talk to some out-of-touch lady therapist, as though she could ever fix him - as though she could ever figure out the truth. No, Butterball's lips are sealed about what happened that day. But some tales can't help being told. And this is one of them.

Inspired by 50 Cent's own adolescence, Playground is a hard-hitting and inspirational story of the redemption of a bully.

About The Author

Curtis Jackson III (aka 50 Cent; www.50cent.com) is an internationally successful hip-hop star, actor, writer, and entrepreneur. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre. He is the author of the bestselling books From Pieces to Weight and The 50th Law.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay G on January 05, 2018

Want to see more bookish things from me? Check out my Youtube channel: [URL not allowed] One day on the playground, 13 year old Butterball took a sock filled with batteries and beat up one of his closest friends, Maurice, sending him to the hospital. Now, he is being forced to......more

Goodreads review by Reading Vacation on November 05, 2011

I was really surprised when Playground showed up in the mail. Come on now! WHAT could I have in common with a bully named Butterball? I went into the book with really low expectations. I. WAS. WRONG. Playground was a deep thinking type of read for me and Butterball was a sort of hero. I could see a......more

Goodreads review by Lectus on August 01, 2012

Read entire review on my blog [URL not allowed] Did you know 50 Cent could write? Other than songs, that is. He wrote this novel loosely inspired by his adolescence and with his 14 year old son in mind. I was very skeptical of this book and was surprised to find a very nicely, s......more

Goodreads review by Ayala on April 08, 2017

I like the story very much and it was good written. Maybe because I am an adult I already saw the mistakes Burton aka Butterball made, was making and was going to make. How he still didn't have a clue and needed to figure things out and it was very interesting to read how he figures things out. I wa......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 29, 2012

Ugh. I know that this book will appeal to certain readers. And I know that those are the readers that need more books to appeal to them. But... Well, the book is just so... ugh. But my criticisms of it come from such an old-white-lady perspective. I was annoyed by the fact that his father stole shoe......more