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Billy Straight : a novel / Jonathan Kellerman.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.E3865 B45 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kellerman, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Street children.
- Runaway children.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Child witnesses--Fiction.
- Child witnesses.
- Runaway children--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Street children--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 467 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1998]
- Summary:
- A Dickensian tale of innocence, urban depravity, and one boy's efforts to maintain his own code of ethics in the face of danger, by the author of "Survival of the Fittest". Twelve-year-old Billy has fled the abuse of his life at home and is fighting to survive on L.A.'s meanest streets. After he witnesses a brutal murder, Billy becomes the center of terrifying attention from the media, from violent bounty hunters, and from the murderer himself.
- ISBN:
- 0679459596
- OCLC:
- 38884615
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