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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

2. Tex

Book cover for "Tex"
Star rating for Tex
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
The love between two teen-age brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up. Usually easygoing and affable, fifteen-year-old Tex undergoes a startling personality change when his rodeo-riding father reveals the truth about Tex's birth, unwittingly pushing the boy to the point of murder.
Book cover for "That was then, this is now"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate. Bryon discovers that his "brother" Mark is a drug pusher.