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Dope Sick
By Myers, Walter Dean
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06121-477-6
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Amistad/HarperTeen, 2009.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2009
Gr 9-Up Things have never looked worse for 17-year-old Jeremy Dance, known as Lil J. After getting involved in a drug deal that ended in the shooting of a police officer, he's nursing a badly wounded arm and desperately looking for a place to hide. He stumbles into an abandoned building and finds an open apartment occupied by an enigmatic man who introduces himself as Kelly. Although Lil J at first assumes that Kelly is just another junkie squatter, a common sight in his Harlem neighborhood, he slowly begins to realize that s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2009 |
On the run after a drug deal turns into a cop shooting, Lil J ducks into an abandoned building and encounters Kelly, an enigmatic figure who puts this question to him: "If you could take back one thing you did, what would it be?" Like Scrooge's ghostly visitors, the television in Kelly's apartment has the power to show Lil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
On the run after a drug deal turns into a cop shooting, Lil J encounters enigmatic Kelly. Like Scrooge's ghostly visitors, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
