This book critique will be over the book Rooftop by Paul Volponi. This book is about a 17 year old boy named Clay who lives in the projects of New York, he got put into a drug recovery program called Daytop after he was caught with weed at school. Then his cousin Addison soon joined because he got caught dealing drugs. The author did a great job keeping the book really easy to read and understand what's going on. This book has really been one of the best books I have read so far this year the author did an amazing job keeping the book easy to  follow. He did not completely change the subject from chapter to chapter which I really liked because some authors do that and it makes it hard to follow and stay interested. Another thing was that the author kept the story very interesting throughout the book. The author did an amazing job with the characterization in the book, I could really imagine the main characters. I could also relate the characters to people I know or people who I have met. I was actually very surprised that I liked this book because I usually wouldn’t read this type of genre. I would still very recommend this book but only to people at least on 8th grader because the book has very explicit language and many drug references. A quote that confused me throughout the book was, “Andre always knew when that dog had me shook” (Volponi 3), because I never figured out the reason for him not to like the dog. I could relate to Clay when he said, “I felt a hole growing in my chest” (Volponi 75), because that's how I felt when my parents divorced.