street life

Tasha, raised by a drug-addicted mother in New York, has learned to use her beauty to hustle men for their money, but the stakes are raised when she moves to Flint, Michigan, to become one of the Manolo Mamis, and when tragedy strikes she is forced to decide between loyalty and love.

The author describes how his father guided him through his difficult adolescence to where he is now.

In Victorian England, Joe Rat has escaped the clutches of the criminal mastermind, Mother, and is trying to make an honest living in a better part of London, but when a rich philanthropist tracks down a man claiming to be Joe's missing father--a British army deserter--he must determine where his loyalties lie.

Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.

In the dark, dank sewers of Victorian London, a boy known as Joe Rat scrounges for valuables which he gives to "Mother," a criminal mastermind who considers him a favorite, but a chance meeting with a runaway girl and "the Madman" transforms all their lives.

When his emotionally volatile relationship with his mother ends with him being kicked out of the house, sixteen-year-old Dylan meets three other teenagers while struggling to survive on the streets and must determine which of them he can trust.