Bellows Falls was an interesting book because it highlighted a route a young teenager like myself could take. The book discusses how a drug lord uses young kids to run a drug network, a very conceivable idea. These kids can be seen as from the "wrong side of the tracks" and they have succumb to a life of dealing drugs. In my surroundings, drugs are used, but none of my friends or even aquaintances deal drugs. I have never experienced anything like this before, therefore in this aspect the book serves as a window. It serves as a window because I cannot even fathom kids my age participating in drug trafficking. I come from a place where, yes, illegal substances are present but at the same time I have never heard of a network of kids selling drugs. It is hard for me to even imagine this environment and this book provided great insight into a different world that I have never experienced. I thought it was very interesting to imagine kids giving up everything; their education, their families, their very adolescence all to be a part of a crime network. In the environment I am from, drugs are hardly used, never mind trafficked. However, the environment Bellows Falls depicts is one that is saturated with drugs, offering a good look into a different world.

http://www.state.nh.us/nhsp/contents.html

The website is one for the state police of New Hampshire, an organization talked about a lot in the book.