Fight or Flee

From the Series Unbarred

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Do the crime, do the time behind bars. But once you’ve been in, it can be tough to stay out.

When Hinton Helsinger leaves the Youth Correctional Center, he’s set on reforming his impulsive ways. But things at home have changed: his dad has been killed, his mom’s remarried his uncle, and his uncle is the new kingpin of the family gang that controls the town’s drug trade. Threatened by Hinton’s return, Hinton’s uncle hatches a sinister plot using Hinton’s girlfriend, Olivia, as a pawn.

As Hinton struggles between the impulse to avenge his dad’s death and the desire to seek a way out of that corrupt life, he embarks on a downward spiral of revenge and madness from which he and those he loves are unlikely to escape.

This modern twist on Shakespeare’s Hamlet explores the themes of reform, revenge, and self-destruction.

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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre High/Low, Young Adult
Copyright 2016
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Darby Creek ™
Language English
Number of Pages 120
Publication Date 2016-01-01
Reading Counts! Level 5.2
Text Type Fiction
BISACS YAF058270, YAF018080, YAF058050
Dewey [Fic]
Dimensions 5.25 x 7.5
Lexile 670
ATOS Reading Level 4.4
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 180621
Accelerated Reader® Points 2.0
Features Accessible layouts, Afterword, and Author/Illustrator biography

Author: Patrick Jones

Patrick Jones lives in Minneapolis and is the author of many novels including the Support and Defend series. A former librarian, Jones received lifetime achievement awards from the American Library Association and the Catholic Library Association.