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Adoff, Jaime

The Death of Jayson Porter

259 pp. | Hyperion/Jump | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4231-0691-3 $15.99
(2) YA Jayson's mom beats the crap out of him, and his dad is too strung out to care. It's only Jayson's buddy, Trax, and his girlfriend, April, who keep the sixteen-year-old from leaping off the rail of the breezeway outside his high-rise apartment. Adoff's free-verse narrative is brutal and beautiful, intense and honest, and ultimately uplifting, as Jayson climbs out of the abyss.
Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2008

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