16 check outs, 18 check outs, 8th grade, abuse, abused, acesarclms, african american, african american fiction, african american teenagers, african americans, african-american literature, and being able to open up with the people you love, archive, basketball, but the out come, but the out come in the middle is very interesti, choices, coming of age, courage, dealth and etc., death, depressing as heck, draper, dysfunctional families, emtotional, family, fear, fiction, friendship, graduation, great series. students love these books., hazelwood, hazelwood high trilogy, hazelwood trilogy, heartache, high school, hope, in the middle is very interesti, level 2 (400-700), love, loyalty, middle school, pain, rape, rape attempt, read between 2000 and 2007, realistic, realistic fiction, really sad in the beginning, relationships, reluctant reader? yes, right and wrong ways, school, series, sharon draper, sharon m. draper, struggle, student choice, suicide, suspense, teen fiction, teenagers, teenbookcon, teens, third book in the series, this book is about trust, women writers, ya, you cant put it down, young adult, young adult fiction, young adults, younge adult