Babylon Boyz

A stunning new novel by the Author of Way Past Cool

There aren''t many choices for inner-city teenagers, and Dante and his friends know it. Dante needs a heart operation; Pook wants to go to college and medical school; and they all want to get out of Babylon. None of these dreams are possible -- until they find a suitcase, tossed from a drug dealer''s car during a police chase. Thinking that it contains the money that will finally give them the escape route they''ve been seeking, they take it, but find it is filled with pure cocaine. Suddenly they have choices. Selling the drugs would solve their immediate problems, but it would also contribute to the destruction of their community, and make them an integral part of everything that''s wrong in Babylon.

Jess Mowry is the bestselling author of Way Past Cool and other books for children and young adults. According to the New York Times, ＂Few authors capture the slang and terrors of inner-city streets the way Mr. Mowry does. And few write with such a sense of mission and fury.＂ Jess Mowry makes his home in Oakland, California.