What They Found (2007)

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What They Found
Walter Dean Myers
Genres: Fiction
Also, don’t be jumping up in my face because I don’t like that, either. So when this snap-happy chick at the pool hall starts running her mouth about the way I dress and had the nerve, when I had politely asked her to shut her stupid mouth, to step in front of me and shake her fake fingernails in my face—well, I naturally went upside her head. Several times. With a pool cue. That is how I ended up watching television at Sunrise House on Christmas Eve. I had done twenty days of a sixty-day deck ...and I had eight more to serve at Sunrise, which is a residency joint for girls on their way out of the joint. It was Christmas Eve and the word came down that anybody who had a place to go to could split. The thing was that my mother went to the Dominican Republic the week before and I had left my keys with her, so I didn’t have anyplace to go. I was seventeen and knew my way around, but I still didn’t have anywhere to crash, so there I was holding down the place by myself. Only other people there was an old security dude and this Jewish lady, Mrs.MoreLess

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