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Saint Death

by Marcus Sedgwick

Ages: 14+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-62672-549-2

Keywords: Drug trafficking, Political chaos, Poverty

If not for the wild profitability of selling illegal drugs to Americans, the deadly gangs of Juárez would not exist. One boy's courageous yet devastating story.