Preview of Way Past Cool Summary:

Some may find reading this novel difficult. Way Past Cool may be the bluntest, most straightforward novel about innercity teenage gangs—especially junior high school gangs—ever published, delving deeper and more harshly into the lives of innercity street life than even S. E. Hinton's landmark novel The Outsiders (1967; please see separate entry). The almost hopeless lives that Way Past Cool's youngsters endure and the way they accept brutality as an...