When We Was Fierce

By E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

In an endless cycle of street violence and retribution, is there any escape? A powerful verse novel by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo. Fifteen-year-old Theo isn t looking for trouble, but when he and his friends witness a brutal attack on Ricky-Ricky, an innocent boy who doesn t know better than to walk right up to the most vicious gang leader around, he s in trouble for real. And in this neighborhood, everything is at stake. In a poignant, unflinching novel of survival told largely in street dialect, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo enters the lives of teenagers coming of age in the face of spiraling violence among gangs, by police, and at home."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763679372
• ISBN13: 9780763679378
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.3" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher