Fifteen-year-old Theo isn't looking for trouble, but when he and his friends witness a brutal attack on Ricky – Ricky, an innocent boy who doesn't know better than to walk right up to the most vicious gang leader around – Theo's in trouble for real. And in this neighborhood, everything is at stake. In a poignant, unflinching novel of survival told largely in street dialect, E.E. Charlton-Trujillo enters the lives of teenagers coming of age in the face of spiraling violence among gangs, by police, and at home.
