Central Kansas Library System

From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more. Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side of Cleveland, where apartments are small and parents suffer addiction to the white rocks. Yet there is magic everywhere. Every day Echo travels between worlds, attending a rich white school on the West Side. But there are dangers...

TJ returns to live with his mother, who has stopped using drugs, after spending two years in a loving home, and although he does not use, TJ finds that he can escape neither the seedy environment of his hometown nor past debts still owed.