2010/240 pgs
About the Book: Efrain is an ambitious, smart, high schooler who wants to be accepted into Harvard. He knows there's no way he could afford an Ivy League school, but he knows he has the grades if he could find the money. When he's offered a chance to join his friend selling drugs, Efrain decides to lead a double life-good student by day, drug dealer by night. He needs the money and it's just until graduates and he can keep it secret until then-he just needs to not get caught.
Sarah Teenlibrarian Says: Efrain is a character I could connect with from the start. He's smart, ambitious, he's funny, and he's a good kid who has been dealt a bad hand. I cared about him and his story. He doesn't make the best decisions and it's painful to read because you know his story can't end well. Usually I find endings that have an "if only" twist to them annoying and frustrating, but I felt this one worked and was needed to really hit home.
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