No castles here

Description:

Eleven-year-old Augie Boretski dreams of escaping his run-down Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood, but things start to turn around with help from a Big Brother, a music teacher, and a mysterious bookstore owner, so when his school is in trouble, he pulls the community together to save it.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Choirs (Music),  Books and reading,  Magic,  Determination (Personality trait),  City and town life,  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Books and reading, fiction,  Magic, fiction,  New jersey, fiction,  Music, fiction

Places: New Jersey,  Camden,  Camden (N.J.)