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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
281 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout.
Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of "the system," cluttered with cynical authority figures and unscrupulous inmates, who will turn in anyone to shorten their own sentences. For the first time, Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces prison, where he may...