Maya wanders around town. She visits the library and uses the bathroom to change her bandages. She sleeps in an abandoned car and wakes to find kids watching her through the car window. These kids live in the junkyard and a boy named Bootsie teaches her the rules of the junkyard. Girls and boys are not allowed to sleep in the same car, unless it's raining. The biggest rule is to avoid problems with the police. The girls work in diners on weekends and collect bottles for money. The boys sweep out pool halls and mow lawns. Bootsie holds all the money. Maya lives with the kids for a month in the junkyard. She calls her mother for a ticket home at the end of the month and asks that the ticket be.....
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