sonofthemob

__Son of the Mob__ by Gordon Korman ISBN: 0786807695 c2002 262 pages

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 6-7 where he is looking in the trunk for a blanket and discovers a body!

Summary: Vince Luca is a high school student trying to live a normal life despite the fact that his father is THE ring leader of the mob. Vince’s family has always been involved in the “vending machine business,” but Vince doesn’t agree with that life. Once something finally goes right in his life, his love life specifically, his family background may ruin it all.

YA fiction--teen issues; crime; mobsters; boyfriends/girlfriends

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