Jude's a master of running from things: his best friend, his memories, his nefarious dealer. Billy is determined to stop his marathon once and for all. Judas Stirlying enjoys being a troublemaker. That way, he can skip the middle man and run off people who might care about him before they have the
Jude
β Scribed by Kate Morgenroth
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
*"Listen, you're young. We don't send kids to jail. If you had something to do with this, it's better to tell us. Then we can help you. Maybe it was a friend of yours come to take care of things for you. You've got a nasty bruise there, and your neighbors told us that you tend to get a lot of bruises. We take those things into account, you know. We understand about things like that."
"You don't understand anything," Jude said.*
After Jude watches his drug-dealer father get gunned down at the kitchen table, he's taken from their dangerous neighborhood to a comfortable home, an elite private school, and a mother he doesn't remember. Only fifteen, Jude is under suspicion for his father's murder, but to save his own life, he can't tell the police what he knows.
To make things worse, Jude's mother is the district attorney. She can protect him from the police -- but when Jude's classmate overdoses on heroin, Jude is implicated, and his mother decides to prosecute. Jude is...
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