Romiette and Julio is a young adult novel by writer and educator Sharon Draper, originally published in 2001. It is set in 1999 in Draper's current hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, and addresses the problems of ethnic tensions and gangs in the city's secondary schools. The novel itself derives its plot from West Side Story, a musical drama initially performed in 1957, which adapted the basic plot of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette to a setting in which the two young lovers live in a neighborhood in which white and Hispanic gangs are vying for control.
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