Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Dope sick / Walter Dean Myers. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Amistad/HarperTeen, c2009. - 186 p. ; 19 cm.

Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.

Grades 9 up.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 9780061214783 0061214787 9780061214776 0061214779

LCCN: 2008010568

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Drug abuse--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Supernatural--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.