Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd Winnick.  New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2000.

ISBN:  0-8050-6403-6.                                Subject: Biography, AIDS, Real World            Grades:9-12

Curricular Connections: Could be used in high school health class to provide AIDS education.

Judd has no previous experience with AIDS before meeting his roommate Pedro on the MTV show, The Real World.    Their friendship, sketched in black and white comic strip style,changes his life tradjectory.

Q/P: 5/5  A graphic novel that has the ability to move the reader to tears.  While young readers will be unfamiliar with this early season of the Real World, the show itself is still on, heightening interest. 

BVG, 7/21/09           

Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd Winick. New York: Henry Holt, 2000. ISBN:         0-8050-6403-6.

The story of friendship from ground-breaking MTV reality show The Real World.  Judd Winick is the roommate of HIV/AIDS activist Pedro Zamora, who uses the spotlight on The Real World to leave a legacy of activism.

Black and white comic-strip style illustrations.

        Curriculum Connections

        English/Language Arts

        Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs

(DM 4.28.08)

Pedro and Me by Judd Winick. New York: H. Holt, 2000.  0-80506-403-6

Annotation: Describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World," one of whom died of AIDS.

Media: black and white cartoon graphics 

Rating: 7th-10th 4Q/4P

lvanburen/06-09

Pedro And Me by Judd Winick, ill. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000.

This is the heart-wrenching story of Pedro Zamora, the HIV-positive AIDS educator who in 1994 appeared on MTV's The Real World San Francisco, showing the world what it was like to be a young gay man living with HIV.

    -ISBN 978-0805089646 (2009 edition)

    - Media: black and white graphics

    - Rating: 5Q/5P

    - Curricular Connections: Grades 9-12, History/Social Studies, GLBT, Science/Health

    - *TOP TEN*

DPower 7/5/09

Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick. NY, NY: Horn Book, 2000.  ISBN-10: 0805089640 Q5/5P

            This book is so valuable and must be used in Health Education classes in middle and high school. Pedro states that he had never been told about HIV and it is his wish that he educate as many young people as possible about having safe sex. This heart-wrenching account of Pedro’s life will reach young audiences because of its passion and honesty.

-Christina Gendron 7/7/09