If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldnâ't beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, whoâ'd died for the third time in a monthâ?and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Deanâ's dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work than being a kid.
Five young friends, determined to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live, become landlords of a neglected building. Will these children be able to handle the responsibility of caring for a building and for the people who call that building home?
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Social Issues / Friendship, General, Lifestyles / City + Town Life
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Puffin
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: August 1, 1989
- Date Published: August 1, 1989
- Author: Walter Dean Myers