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By Al B. Beard
The Heights lies among Martinsville and Collinsville, Virginia. Technically a Martinsville local, the Heights turns out to belong to neither city, a minimum of so far as younger Jim Stevens is worried. For Jim, the Heights is simply a part of a coarse manufacturing unit city with little going for it.
Despite strong associates and a loving kinfolk, Jim is aware he desires out. at the streets of the Heights, a kid’s reputation—and safety—is purely nearly as good as his fists. Jim has noticeable young children within the 6th grade struggle their means into the emergency room, and one child is an animal torturer and straight-up pyromaniac. No, the Heights isn't the place Jim plans to spend his life.
While plotting his get away, Jim lives a mystery lifestyles choked with flights of mind's eye and adolescence event whereas round him, the foremost occasions of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties spread. And whilst a chance to flee the Heights offers itself, Jim is keen to take it, no matter if it isn’t remotely felony.
Based at the author’s personal adolescence, The Heights tells the story of a tender guy so determined for whatever extra he doesn’t discover what he has, until eventually it really is too late.
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