Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- ISBN-10
- 0743254333
- ISBN-13
- 9780743254335
- Category
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Author
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Description
Girls look for excitement and find trouble; boys, searching for adventure, join crews and prison gangs. Coco moves upstate to dodge the hazards of the Bronx; Jessica seeks solace in romance. Both find that love is the only place to go."--BOOK JACKET.
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- 2012-10-23
- 432 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster
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