Rats in the Trees (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover
Arriving in Oakland with his skateboard and dreams of living by the ocean, thirteen-year-old Robby befriends the Animals, a street gang whose culture is based on skateboards, beer, rap slang, and danger
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Jess Mowry was born in Mississipi in 1960 and raised in Oakland, California by his father. He has been a drug dealer's bodyguard, made his living from collecting scrap metal. and worked in a centre for street kids. In 1988 he bought a typewriter for eight dollars and began writing. His stories have been published in literary magazines and the collection Rats in the Trees won a PEN/Josephine Miles Award. He has written the novels Children of the Night, Way Past Cool and Six Out Seven.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0140178732
- ISBN 13 9780140178739
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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