Friday, March 11, 2011

The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaimie Adoff

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Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even a thread of a relationship with his drug-addicted father. As the pressure mounts, there?'s only one thing Jayson feels he has control over?the choice of whether to live or die. In this powerful, gripping& novel, Coretta Scott King Award?winning author Jaime Adoff explores the harsh reality of a teenager?'s life, giving hope even in the bleakest of hours. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.


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