AR Book Level
5.1
AR Points
6
Word Count
40,529
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
151333 EN
About this book
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen, where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man. The plot contains profanity and violence.