num_pages: 208
description: Clay is committed to cleaning up his act. He’s at Daytop, a drug treatment facility, working towards getting his GED and kicking his drug habit. Then one day his estranged cousin, Addison, shows up at the program. Addison’s a bigger, bolder version of Clay: he’s older, he’s into harder drugs, and he’s in more trouble.That trouble comes to a head one tragic night on a rooftop when Addison is shot by the police as Clay stands just a few steps away. Addison wasn’t armed. He didn’t deserve to die. But was he completely innocent? And what will prove more difficult for Clay—living a lie, or facing the truth?
language: English
title: Rooftop
titlecomplete: Rooftop
genres: Fiction, Cultural, Mystery, Social Justice, Teen, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Urban, Crime, Race
ratings_count: 787
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers