Way Past Cool

Gordon, age thirteen, is the leader of the Friends, a gang of young black boys who struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak, ragged turf in Oakland--known to the homeboys as Oaktown--California. When a more powerful sixteen-year-old drug dealer tries to set the Friends against their neighboring rival gang, the Crew, the dealer's unwilling bodyguard emerges as the key player in a drama that illuminates America's urban reality in a totally new way. A shocking portrait of young kids living on the slimmest of edges, "Way Past Cool "is also an inspiring, even hopeful testament to the renewing power of love.Mowry, Jess is the author of 'Way Past Cool' with ISBN 9780060975456 and ISBN 0060975458.