Terence realizes DeAndre isn’t who he wants to be after all and refuses.Īpart from his missing memories, Healy is in perfect health, so he’s transferred out of the medical hospital and into a psychiatric one. Arjay feeds his love of music by sneaking out to see a show and joining a band, and DeAndre offers Terence an “initiation” into his gang: beat up an old woman and throw her in a frigid fountain, bringing him her ring as proof. Healy wakes up but has lost all of his memories, so the boys need to keep up their deception at home.

Gecko has begun dating one of the other hospital volunteers, Roxanne, while trying to keep his precarious home life a secret from her. The boys agree to keep up their responsibilities and maintain the illusion that Healy is still there until he wakes up and comes home.Īt school, Arjay begins taking music lessons at lunchtime, and Terence tries to make his way into DeAndre’s circle. He begins volunteering at the hospital to keep an eye on him. When Gecko drops in to check on him later, he learns that Healy is unidentified and in a coma. The boys drive him to the hospital, drop him at the doors, and drive away. During the fight, Healy is accidentally knocked off the edge and falls four stories. They try to convince him to come back inside, and their altercation wakes Healy, who joins them. One night, Terence is sneaking out through the apartment fire escape to go and meet DeAndre, but he is caught by Gecko and Arjay. Terence craves the safety and security of a “crew,” and approaches DeAndre, a tough kid at his school, wanting to join his gang. All three are approached by Douglas Healy and offered a chance to get out: He has created a unique “halfway house” program where the four of them will live together in an apartment in New York, going to school, counseling, and community service for six months of rehabilitation. Terence Florian has been in the correctional system for a while due to a string of misdemeanors and a robbery gone wrong, and Arjay Moran was sent to prison for an accidental murder.

At 14, driving is his greatest skill and his greatest comfort-even when it gets him sent to the Jerome Atchison Juvenile Detention Center. Graham Fosse, known as “Gecko,” drives a stolen getaway car for his brother Rueben.

The juvie three by gordon korman