Erica has just moved to St. Louis in the aftermath of her
parent’s break-up. A white girl in a
mostly African-American neighborhood and school, she quickly becomes entangled
with a group in the neighborhood called the TKO Club. The club’s main form of entertainment is
trying to knock out unsuspecting people on the street by punching them. Erica has a video camera and videotapes
several of these incidents and shares them among the members of the club and their
friends. At first being with then group,
especially their leader, Kalvin, feels great.
She finally feels like she has some control. But more and more, as the
game goes on, she starts to feel uneasy.
The victims are mostly people from the neighborhood who she sees after
the attacks and some of them seem pretty badly hurt. She worries that what they are doing is not
just a fun game, but could be dangerous and possibly land her or other members
of the club in jail. A good portrayal of
a real problem in St. Louis and other parts of the country, any teens who live
in major metropolitan areas might like to read this book.
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