num_pages: 208
description: If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn’t beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who’d died for the third time in a month—and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Dean’s dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work than being a kid.
language: English
title: The Young Landlords
titlecomplete: The Young Landlords
genres: Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, African American, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 210
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High
publisher: Puffin Books