Rooftop

In the book Rooftop by Paul Volponi he wanted to teach kids to stay away from drugs, don't fall into the wrong crowd, and stay out of trouble. Clay was in a rehab facility for drugs and trying to get his GED and do something with his life. Clay's cousin, Addison, comes to program because of his drugs. Addison does more crazy drugs, hangs out with more gangs, and kills people. They both grew up in the projects and their family was ripped apart over a stupid argument about Clay and Addison doing drugs. They go on the rooftop with one of their friends and stuff goes down, the cops come and finds them doing drugs, one of them shoots Addison for no reason, and arrests Clay and not the friend. Clay finds out his "friend" snitched on them about the drugs, the cop goes to trial for shooting Addison for no reason. He is guilty and is sentenced to 20 years and Clay goes and jumps his ex friend. Clay goes to the funeral and finally the family is back together.