Dope sick
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2009 - HarperTeen/Amistad, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
46,500 words, Guess
Page Count
186 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedopesick00myer
- Internet Archivedopesick0000myer
- Internet Archivedopesick0000myer_a2i3
- ISBN-139780061214776
- ISBN-139780061214783
and 8 more
- ISBN-100061214779
- ISBN-100061214787
- Goodreads4722869', '6463565
- Library of Congress Control Number2008010568
- OCLC Control Number227000147
- Better World Books9780061214776
- Better World Books9780061214783
- Open LibraryOL19429635M
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.M992 Dop 2009
- LCCPZ7.M992Dop 2009
Description
The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's supposed to be an easy deal, but it isn't so simple when the buyer is an undercover cop.With a gunshot wound to the arm, Rico in jail, and a police officer clinging to life, Lil J is starting to get dope sick. He'd do anything to change the last twenty-four hours, and when he stumbles into an abandoned crack house, it actually might be possible. . . .Walter Dean Myers weaves elements of magical realism into a harrowing story about drug use, violence, alternate perceptions of reality, and second chances.
Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
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- Dope sick
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