num_pages: 199
description: Cousins Clay and Addison were like brothers, growing up together in the projects, until they were ripped apart by a family argument. When they are reunited in a drug-treatment program, they try to work out their issues like a family. But one night, one wrong decision, leaves Clay shaken and Addison dead. And in the rash of events that follow, the truth of what actually happened on the rooftop of the apartment building is caught up in a clash of politics and racial issues. Will Clay be able to rise above the lies and face the truth?
language: English
title: Rooftop
titlecomplete: Rooftop
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Social Justice, Urban, Teen, Crime, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Race, Cultural
ratings_count: 787
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Puffin Books