Books like No Way Out by Peggy Kern
At Bluford High, freshman Harold Davis is in a tight spot: mounting medical bills for his sick grandmother and a social worker’s warning that he could be placed in foster care. Desperate, he reluctantly takes a job for Londell James, a neighborhood drug dealer. The work drags him deeper into a perilous streetscape where violence is omnipresent. Harold must decide whether to press on for survival or find a way out before the violence claims him.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Peggy Kern
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