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      Way Past Cool

      by Jess Mowry
      Published
      Apr 1992
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      320
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      Gordon, age thirteen, is the leader of the Friends, a gang of young black boys who struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak, ragged turf in Oakland--known to the homeboys as Oaktown--California. When a more powerful sixteen-year-old drug dealer tries to set the Friends against their neighboring rival gang, the Crew, the dealer's unwilling bodyguard emerges as the key player in a drama that illuminates America's urban reality in a totally new way. A shocking portrait of young kids living on the slimmest of edges, Way Past Cool is also an inspiring, even hopeful testament to the renewing power of love.

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      Jan 1993 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060975456 ISBN10 0060975458
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      First Edition Apr 1992 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374286699 ISBN10 0374286698
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      Jun 1992 HarperAudio ISBN13 9781559946452 ISBN10 1559946458
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