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Rooftop
Paul Volponi

Rooftop

Penguin (Jun 01, 2006)
9780670060696
| Hardcover
208 pages | 146 x 220 mm | English
LC Classification PZ7.V8877 .Roo 2006
LC Control No. 2005022811

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • African Americans
  • African Americans/ Juvenile Fiction

Plot

Clay is committed to cleaning up his act. He’s at Daytop, a drug treatment facility, working towards getting his GED and kicking his drug habit. Then one day his estranged cousin, Addison, shows up at the program. Addison’s a bigger, bolder version of Clay: he’s older, he’s into harder drugs, and he’s in more trouble.That trouble comes to a head one tragic night on a rooftop when Addison is shot by the police as Clay stands just a few steps away. Addison wasn’t armed. He didn’t deserve to die. But was he completely innocent? And what will prove more difficult for Clay—living a lie, or facing the truth?