Author: Rosa Guy

Publisher: MacMillan Education 1986

Pages: 160

At 16, Imamu Jones is already tough, street-wise and suspicious of the world. He has also been charged with murder and been sent to a detention centre. When Ann Aimsley rescues him and asks him to join her family as a foster son, Imamu can't believe his good luck. His own father is a drunkard; his home is in the slums of New York's Harlem district. But Ann lives in a well-off house in Brooklyn with her own two daughters and her successful husband.

When Imamu joins the Aimsleys, he has trouble adjusting to his new life. Especially when he meets the gorgeous Dora Belle.

A disturbing but finally hopeful story that makes no concessions to those who think there are always easy solutions to life's most difficult problems.