Street Lit for Teens			Back to Booklist
	33 snowfish		YA FIC RAPP, A.
		Adam Rapp
		A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
	Babylon Boyz		YA FIC MOWRY, J.
		Jess Mowry
		Dante, who badly needs a heart operation, and Pook, who dreams of going to medical school--are confronted with a difficult choice when they stumble upon a cache of cocaine whose sale would give them their dreams but, at the same time, would contribute to the demise of their community.
	Bang!		YA FIC FLAKE, S.
		Sharon Flake
		In a neighborhood where random death walks onto your front porch and kills you or your innocent little brother, Mann and Kee-lee become increasingly convinced that they'll die before reaching 17. Mann's father, believes that his son needs to be toughened up in order to survive, so he takes the two buddies camping and deserts them far from home.
	Begging for Change		YA FIC FLAKE, S.
		Sharon Flake
		Teenager Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
	Broken China		YA FIC WILLIAMS, L.
		Lori Aurelia Williams
		China Cup Cameron, a fourteen-year-old single mother with only her paralyzed Uncle Simon for support, takes on tremendous personal debt in hopes of a beautiful funeral after her daughter dies.
	Death of Jayson Porter		YA FIC ADOFF, J.
		Jaime Adoff
		Jayson Porter’s life is miserable. His relationship with his alcoholic mother wavers between abuse and neglect, his father is a downwardly spiraling crack addict, and he literally has to dodge bullets in the projects just to stay alive long enough to escape in the only way he sees possible.