Property Of

Part I of Essay
is a powerful novel about a teenage girl who will do anything to belong--to McKay, that is. "No one knows how much she wants him, how far she'll go to be with him. She doesn't even know herself..." (back cover). New York City sets the stage for this tale. It tells the ....

Part II of Essay
.... to McKay, and this made the narrator jealous. Starry was The Number One Property. She is very little, and looked no more than fourteen, but the way she drank from a bottle of tequila made it evident she was no child. The narrator convinces Danny the Sweet to let her come with him to the secret meeting before the Night of the Wolf, in hopes of catching McKay's eye. The Night of the Wolf is a fight between the Pack and the Orphans, which would determine who would have control of the Avenue and the honor that goes with it. It was this night s ....