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Reviewed on February 28, 2025 | YA - High School
Gr 9 Up—This action-packed and gritty depiction of drugs, death, and divine intervention paradoxically weaves the lives of young adults with that of three gang members. With Jamdown, known as Jamaica, serving as the backdrop to this dual time line story, readers quickly become attached to Deja, the young teen left to care for her sister and brother living life as "barrel kids." With mom away in "foreign" (New York),...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
