Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life.
So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night -- so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store? Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living? Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appear.
Groundwood Books The greats, hardcover/deborah ellis
