Is this Trash?

By Pamela G.

This book is about three boys that live in on the outskirts of a big city. These boys are in their early teens and make a living sifting through trash all day. Two boys find this bag that supposedly is tied to a criminal case inside the city. So the police show up looking for said bag and the boys hide it. In the bag was a key to a locker inside of the city. So the three boys go on a search to find the locker. In the locker was a coded letter. The boys then go back to the city and the cops arrest one of them and almost beat him to death. They later got their city out of poverty and moved to a nice beachy area, later buying boats and spending the rest of their loves fishing.

Now, I have no idea why this book being entitled Trash didn't scream out to me "Hey I'm literally trash"  nevertheless I read it anyway. At the beginning it was good and the part two came along and I became interested and skipped to the end. The author being from London writes like a person from from England, using words that we here in America don't really understand. For the words that we do understand however they aren't challenging. This is a mediocre story about poverty, but it's an unrealistic representation of poverty. In fact it makes poverty look better than it really is, by giving them jobs and food and even a school and like shelter, not good shelter, but shelter. Poverty is a struggle to provide for the needs, these people really have all they need. Some of the way he (the author) words things are a bit lacking of grammar, then again the boys who are "writing" this are supposed to be uneducated. They have at least 5 different narrators, and at the beginning of each chapter it say "Raphael here" or whoever is supposed to be telling the story.

I wouldn't really recommended due to the fact that it is not exciting and just kind of like a fifth grade reading level.