Ghetto Kidz

Ghetto Kidz (Original title: If I grow up ) is a novel by Morton Rhue and describes the youth of an African American boy in a ghetto and his descent into violence and crime.

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Kalon is a 12-year-old who lost his parents at an early age and never met his father. He lives in the big city ghetto with his grandmother and sister Nia. The constant war over drug and arms trafficking between the gangs Douglass Disciples and Gentry Gangstas has cost the life of Kalon's mother. So he tries to stay out of it until his grandmother becomes ill and Nia becomes pregnant. He needs money, so the Disciple leader Marcus offers him to become a member of the gang, because he appreciates Kalon's intelligence. Kalon becomes a confidante of Marcus until he is shot by a member of his own gang. The other disciples want him as a gang leader, but then the argument between the gangs never ends. Kalon and the leader of the gangstas Rance unite the two gangs into one: Gangsta Disciple. Kalon works his way up to the second strongest man and shoots Rance instead of William, the brother of Kalon's friend, as Rance expected. At the age of 18, now the father of a son, Kalon is arrested and likely to spend the rest of his life in prison .

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Morton Rhue: Ghetto Kidz . Ravensburger Buchverlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-473-35292-0