An ALA Best Books for Young AdultsAn ALA Notable Children's BookAn ALA Best of the Best Books for Young AdultsThe Horn Book Fanfare ListDesperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground—into the sheltering depths of the New York City Subway where he ends up staying for one hundred and twenty-one days. This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit's attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world.