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Plot summary
First Quarter

The beginning of the novel is about an African American male in a predicament. Steve Harmon; he is a sixteen-year old who is being tried for felony murder and could be locked up in prison for 20 years to life. . Steve is a young filmmaker. The whole novel is a from Steve's point of view as written in a notebook that he keeps in prison and in the courtroom. Becase Steve is a young filmaker the novel occausionlly changes to a screen play format where the characters names are given in all-capital letters and camera directions accompany the dialog. The beginning of the novel describes Steve's life at jail for Steve as being very emotional.

Second Quarter During Harmon's Trail petrocelli calls to the stand a 14-year-old boy name Osvaldo Cruz. Osvaldo tells them who participated and the plan for the robbery.He tells petrocelli that Steve, Bobo ,King ,and himself were involed in the robbery.The plan was that Steve would go in the drugstore check for police or citizens.Signal that the store was clear.Osvaldo was to slow down any person who chased King or Bobo,who would rob Mr.Nesbit the store owner.Osvaldo also tells the police that he participated in the robbery ,because Bobo threatening to cut him and his mom up. Third Quarter Next a lady name Lorelle Henry testifies.She was in the drugstore when the robbery happened.She was in there to buy cold medicine for her daughter so that she could enjoy her Christmas.At that time she saw Bobo and King faking an argument to make Mr.Nesbit come closer so that King could ask him at gun point where the money was.Then Henry says she forgot about what else happened.Then the Prosecutor brings Bobo out to tell his part of the story.Bobo says that King shot Mr.Nesbit with his own gun for muscling King. Bobo starts talking about Steve's actions. Bobo says that steve went in the store and came out without saying anything. At this point it seems as if Steve didn't participated in the robbery because his job was to signal if the coast was clear, and he never got a taste of the money. Fourth Quarter The Middle till the End of the book talks about how the trail is going and Steve's thought during the end of the book. Then he also talks about how King is being prosecuted in the court room. Then the Middle to the End really describes how Steve is innocent. The End is wrapping up the trail and describes Kings testimony and Bobo testimony. The special part is that they get more evidence on the fingerprints. The end of the book talks about how Kathy O'Brien is trying her hardest to help Steve not be guilty. The End also talks about Steve's life in prison is going for him and how much he writes in prison is amazing. The book gets better because King get's prosecuted and gets on the stand. The End gives you more flashbacks from Steve's early childhood. The End gives you more details about Mr.Harmon and Mrs.Harmon and Steve's little brother.

Characters
Steve Harmom- Sixteen-year-old. Thick Brown Skinned, very emotional at some points and really intelligent

Kathy O'Brien- Red haired, and freckled, straight business person.Born in Queens, New York, Went to or attend Bishop McDonnell High School, Attended St.Joesph's college in Brooklyn, worked her way through New York University Law School

Asa Briggs- Eye's are blue, hair is white as snow

Sandra Petrocelli- Intense white Eye's and hair dark, the prosecutor for Steve's trial, business Person, well educated

The judge-Is a 60-year-old man.Hes tall thin,white hair.He is a new york judge

Osvaldo Cruz- Is 14-year-old boy.He is slim, well built.He has a tattoo of a devils head on his left forearm and a tattoo of a dagger on the back of his right between his dumb and forefinger. He is in a gang.

Jose'- Hes is young, very built, and articulated, Drugstore helper.

Zinzi- Hes a nervous man, slightly overweight.He wheres thick glasses,which he touches over and over again as he testifies

Detective Williams- His partner is detective Carl.Detective Williams is the one who takes Steve away for a few Questions.

Mr.Nesbit-Is the drugstore owner. The man who was shot in the robbery by King.

Receptions
Theme Morality-Steve Harmon,16,is accused of serving as a look out at a robbery at a drugstore in Harlem. Mr.Nesbit the drugstore keeper was shot and killed, and Steve is awaiting trail for murder.Steve tells his story in a unusual perspective.Hes an amateur filmmaker.He has a dairy in jail writing every teen vividly nightmarish conditions.Steve searches Deep into his souled to prove that his is not the Monster that Petrocelli had called him. He regains moral awareness that he had lost but he wasn't guilty.

Amazon.com Editional Reviews From school library journal

Theme Walter Dean Myers is an Award-Winning writer of fiction and non-fiction.Myers has received the Margret A Edward for contribution. Myers call's himself the Product of Harlem because he is a native and played basketball there. Myers say's I am a product of Harlem and of the values,color toughness and caring that I found there as a child. "I learned my flat jump-shot in the church basement and got my first during recess at Bible school". "I played endless street games kids played endless street games kids played in the pre-television days and paid enough attention to candy and junk food to dutifully alarm my mother" Myers says "I had a speech difficulty but didn't view it as anything special. It wasn't necessary for me to be much of a social creature once I discovered books. Books took me, not so much to foreign lands and fanciful adventures, but to a place within myself that i have been constantly exploring ever since