Once Brothers

<p>Fans of Jay Bennett and S.E. Hinton will enjoy Once Brothers award-winning author P.D. Workman’s 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.</p><p>Jacob fifteen and a loner never thought he’d get mixed up with a gang.</p><p>Deke older now had sought the gang out for protection when he had no family of his own to rely upon.</p><p>And Sammy only ten pressed into service as a gang courier is terrified of where his job with the gang will lead.</p><p>Three boys each brothers their lives all converging. Can they survive within their gangs? Without them?</p><p>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.</p><p>Praise for Once Brothers</p><p>An easy-to-read portrait of urban gang life and the tough and trying bonds between family friends and brothers in arms.</p><p>Courage and strength tested to the core of life and death in this exhilarating story of three remarkable boys.</p><p>Praise for P.D. Workman</p><p>“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I've read."</p><p>"The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book."</p>