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Rats in the Trees

Rats in the Trees

by JessMowry (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

    $3.44
Synopsis

A 13-year-old black runaway arrives in Oakland, California, with his skateboard, and dreams of living by the ocean. What he finds are the Oakland streets - drugs, pervs, garbage, guns, gang warfare, and a youth culture based on skateboards, rap slang and danger. By the author of Way Past Cool .

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 20 May 1993
ISBN 10: 0099166011
ISBN 13: 9780099166016

Author Bio
Jess Mowry was born in Mississipi in 1960 and raised in Oakland, California by his father. He has been a drug dealer's bodyguard, made his living from collecting scrap metal. and worked in a centre for street kids. In 1988 he bought a typewriter for eight dollars and began writing. His stories have been published in literary magazines and the collection Rats in the Trees won a PEN/Josephine Miles Award. He has written the novels Children of the Night, Way Past Cool and Six Out Seven.