Or Arjay gets famous.Or Terence starts reverting to his old ways. If the boys are discovered, their second chance will be their last. They will go to school, do their community service, attend therapy, and act like model citizens until Healy's memory returns and he can resume his place with them.īut life keeps getting in the way.like when Gecko finds romance. Afraid of being sent back to Juvie, the guys hatch a crazy scheme to continue on as if the group leader never left. But when Healy awakes, he has no memory of them or the halfway house. Terrified of the consequences, they drop him off at a hospital and run away. Things are going well, until one night Healy is accidentally knocked unconscious while trying to break up a scuffle among the boys.
A former juvenile delinquent himself, Healy is running an experimental halfway house in New York City where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids like Gecko, Terence, and Arjay. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago.Īll three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance at life in the form of Douglas Healy.
The boys form a plan will it work or have they run out of second chances? Healy is accidentally injured and suddenly everything is at risk. Healy selects them to serve the rest of their sentences in his halfway house. Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, alldoing time, get a second chance when Mr. Healy selects them to serve their sentences in his halfway house. Publishing Information :Hyperion Books for Children: New York, 2008Ĭrime landed them in jail, but their luck changes when Mr.