Rite of Passage
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780785790549
Subjects: Social Issues - Adolescence; New York (N.Y.); Fiction; Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Runaways; Afro-American teenage boys; Gangs; Juvenile fiction
First sentence: Johnny slouched down behind his desk, clutching his battered reading book, his mind winging away.