Narrator Roger is a fictional classmate of a real person, 11-year-old Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, who joined the Black Disciple gang in 1994, accidentally killed a 14-year-old girl, and went on the run before being caught and shot by his own gang members. As Roger tries to make sense of the situation unfolding in his southside Chicago neighborhood, the reader sees the same evidence, and is invited to question, along with Roger, whether Yummy was a bully or a victim...or maybe both. Randy DuBurke's artwork is particularly heart-tugging, especially the characters' facial expressions. This one will make you think. 
 "I don't know which was worse, the way Yummy lived or the way he died." 
 "As it happens, Mr. Neri originally wrote Yummy's story as a film script, but held off on making it into a movie because he knew that the content would earn him an R rating. And an R rating would keep the kids who most needed to hear this story from seeing it. So a middle grade graphic novel it became instead." -Elizabeth Bird