TWELVE

Mike drops out of prep school to sell drugs, and his uppercrust ex-classmates are among his best customers. The preppies, who live on the Upper East Side, mix uneasily with the kids from nearby Harlem, and when there is a double murder and one of the crowd is arrested, Mike knows who did it. But will he tell the truth? TWELVE was written when the author himself was a prep school student in Manhattan. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.