Once Brothers

Fans of Jay Bennett and S.E. Hinton will enjoy Once Brothers award-winning author P.D. Workmans poignant and powerful account of three urban teens struggling to find a place to belong inside and outside youth gangs. Their uncompromising interconnecting stories of poverty violence and addiction will remind readers of all ages to cherish their families and friendships.Jacob fifteen and a loner never thought hed get mixed up with a gang.Deke older now had sought the gang out for protection when he had no family of his own to rely upon.And Sammy only ten pressed into service as a gang courier is terrified of where his job with the gang will lead.Three boys each brothers their lives all converging. Can they survive within their gangs? Without them?By the author of Ruby Between the Cracks a winner of the Top Ten Best Books for Teens 2015 award this raw and heartbreaking story of abuse loneliness and hope will challenge you to look at your life in a different light.Praise for Once BrothersAn easy-to-read portrait of urban gang life and the tough and trying bonds between family friends and brothers in arms.Courage and strength tested to the core of life and death in this exhilarating story of three remarkable boys.Praise for P.D. WorkmanEvery single one of [P.D. Workmans] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books Ive read.The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.