By Walter Dean Myers
So my MOST reluctant 9th grade boy reader from this past year recommended this book to me (from my own collection). Yep, it's a great one. Rough-and-down-in-the-hood... drugs, cops... and throw in some magic... Myers has another great read for reluctant readers.
Lil J was just trying to scrape some cash together to send his alcoholic mother to South Carolina to her mother's house to dry up. The line for six jobs at Home Depot was more than a block long, so he found his way to a drug dealer that he knew. He was just going to run some heroin across town so they could eat tonight. And then it went wrong, and now a cop is in critical condition, Lil J has a bullet lodged in his arm, and he's on the run. He hides out in an abandoned building where a seemingly homeless guy shows Lil J his life on the TV. He's given the chance to take one day back. If he chooses the day the cop got shot, can he turn his life around?
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