num_pages: 176
description: Arriving in Oakland with his skateboard and dreams of living by the ocean, thirteen-year-old Robby befriends the Animals, a street gang whose culture is based on skateboards, beer, rap slang, and danger
language: English
title: Rats in the Trees
titlecomplete: Rats in the Trees (Contemporary American Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Penguin Books