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Draper, Sharon Reserve Kit Romiette and Julio Sixteen-year-old Julio Montague has moved from Texas to Cincinnati with his family. Julio misses his friends and the warm Texas weather, but he is relieved to have escaped his gang-ridden Corpus Christi high school. Julio meets a girl online who turns out to be Romiette Cappelle, a classmate at his new high school. Julio and Romiette become close friends and find themselves falling in love. It doesn't matter to either one of them that Julio is Latino and Romiette is African-American--but it does matter to their parents. More alarmingly, it seems to matter to the Devildogs, a gang that terrorizes students at their high school. Will parental disapproval and the unwelcome attentions of the Devildogs tear Romiette and Julio apart? 236 1999 Teen Fiction Book Discussion Questions

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