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Durango route     Durango Street is a novel by Frank Bonham. He writes astir(predicate) a young boy who lives in an extremely bad neighborhood. His pay heed is Rufus Henry. Rufus was in a correctional camp for stealing a car. In the camp he met a friend named foul up. Baby lived where Rufuss mother had moved. Baby got released a infinitesimal bit before Rufus and then went on to his household "the flats." Rufus was left out from camp with a parol officer. His parole officer tells him not to get involved with caboodles but Rufus knows he has to join a gang to survive. He runs into one of the local gangs The Gassers, and gets into a little fight with them and the attraction Simon Jones. He gets away in good condition, but knows that The Gassers are goin to be looking for him. So he finds his friend Baby and joins the gang The Moors. Rufus gets besiege up into the gang, and soon after takes over. He beats up the attractor Bantu. Rufus the takes co ntorl of the gang. The rival gang knows about this, and then beats up Rufuss little sister. Rufus then gets back at them and beats up the gang and blows up there car. He then meets up with a man named Alex Robbins. The man is a social worker who "sponsors" or helps gangs. They have meetings every workweek and talk about The Gassers and ideas they have. Alex suggests to go to the local football team (TheMaurders) and hold in them train. Little did Alex know is that Rufus has an obsession with their star running back Ernie Brown. Ernie is rattling Rufuss father, but no-one knows except Rufus and his mother. Simon Jones steals Rufuss book of Ernie Brown that he keeps in closed book and in provate. Simon then reads it in front of everyone how Ernie is really Rufuss father. This makes things with the gangs very hostile. The Moors then meet these two girls named Nonie and Jannet. They talk with the gang and convince them to throw a graduation bounce. The gang rounds up some money and has the jump. The Gassers try to deflower it by setting off smoke bombs in the ventalation systems, but the dance is not spoiled but turned out great. After the dance Rufus and Alex talk about Rufus going back to school, and they end off with a nice smile.