A Winnipeg Free Press Bestseller! - In the Margins Book Award, Top
Ten Selection - CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2017)
Selection
Close as brothers, Jakub's and Lincoln's lives diverge when Jakub gets a
private school scholarship and Lincoln is lured into a gang.
Fifteen-year-old Jakub Kaminsky is the son of Polish immigrants, a good
Catholic boy, and a graffiti artist. While his father sleeps, Jakub and
his best friend, Lincoln, sneak out with spray paint to make their mark
as Morf and Skar.
When Jakub gets a scholarship to an elite private school, he knows it's
his chance for a better life. But it means leaving Lincoln and the
neighbourhood he calls home.
While Jakub's future is looking bright, Lincoln's gets shady as he is
lured into his brother's gang. Jakub watches helplessly as Lincoln gets
pulled deeper into the violent world of the Red Bloodz. The Red Bloodz
find out Jakub knows more than he should about a murder and want him
silenced -- for good. Lincoln has to either save his friend, or embrace
life as one of the Red Bloodz.