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The Buffalo Tree Book
Clipping hoodies changed Sura's life. He's shipped off to Hamstock, a juvenile detention center that's worse than most. At the Stock they don't. try to keep juvies till they reform. They just keep guys till they feel like letting them go.Sura and his patchmate, a kid named Coly Jo, look out for each other and try to evade the Stock's sadistic games. But things turn bad fast for Coly Jo, and Sura helplessly watches his friend's descent into hell, determined to escape with his own body and spirit intact -- if he can.Thirteen-year old Sura--intelligent, reckless, sensitive, and adrift--is serving a six-month sentence at Hamstock Juvenille Detention Center. Coping wiht the brutal pressures of life inside "the Stock," Sura helplessly watches his doomed bunkmate, Coly Jo, fall prey to the worst excesses of the prison system, and determines to escape with his own body and spirit intact--if he can. Vivid, inspired, shocking, real, The Buffalo Tree is a linguistic tour-de-force that burns with rhythms and intensitty of the street--and the unexpected dreams and desired of those who live there. Read More
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- 006440711X
- 9780064407113
- Adam Rapp
- 1 October 1998
- HarperTrophy
- Paperback (Book)
- 192
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