No Way Out Review.

A book that I really enjoyed reading last year is "No Way Out' by Peggy Kern. Harold Davis is a student at Bluford High and he faced a lot of troubles. His mom died when he was born, and his dad left after that. His grandmother has been taking care of him ever since then. Harold was in school one day when he got bad news from the teachers. His grandmother had passed out and she cut her leg open. She also had Diabetes. One time he looked through the mail and he saw that a social worker threatened to put him in a foster home. He saw hospital bills that were mind blowing, and thought how could his grandmother work if she was sick? That triggered him and he was really intimidated. He hated that he had to watch her suffer, so he decided to get hisself a job. After a few days he ended up quitting. He didn't want to tell his grandmother so he put on a phase to act like he still had the job. Harold knew the neighborhood drug dealer Londell James, and he was never up to any good. He has a little brother who dropped out of 7th grade to work with him. He chose the wrong people to hang with. Family or not. Londell asked Harold if he wanted to work for him and he thought about it for a while. After Londell pulled out a stack of money, Harold decided to work for him. Harold's first errand was to take some bags to a customers house. Inside the bag was white powder, aka Cocaine. While he was standing on the porch, he saw a little girl watching him. He didn't like the fact that he was selling drugs in a neighborhood with kids, but he didn't stop because he was desperate for money. Whatever way he could make money, was the way he chose. One time while going to a customers house he was in a bad situation. The customer didn't have the right amount of money and he was trying to justify his insecurity, but Harold refused to give him the drugs until he paid. The customer punched Harold in the nose and took the bags. Harold went home and the first thing he did was run into the bathroom to clean himself off. He thought of lies to tell his grandmother so she would understand why he had the scars/bruises. When he came out the bathroom he saw his grandmother standing at the counter with big brown bags that came out of his backpack. It was the drugs she discovered he had. She was devastated of what he was doing, because she never expected him to do something like that. He told her why he did it, and turns out he did it for nothing. She could pay the hospital bills with her card, and with money she already had saved up. He had to meet Londell at the park so he ran out with no hesitation. His grandmother screamed his name so he would come back, but he didn't turn back.....

I like this because it taught me to stop following with the wrong crowd. I'm glad that I read this in 7th grade because that's when I mostly started realizing things. I recommend this book to any and everybody because it gives you an example that everything you do will have consequences. Don't do something you know you'll regret because it will turn back on you in the long run.