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The idea of growing up in poverty produces thoughts of lack, loneliness, and low-income housing. Crime is usually the result in this equation. But the ghetto is more than the sum of its drug dealers, gangs, and drive-by shootings. For these young people, it's home. This is the story of two sisters growing up on "The Avenues," a series of streets in one of the city's toughest neighborhoods, and how they survived what could have been a fatal night. Crack open this tale of what life is really like in the ghetto and how these young people survive. Here's an excerpt: She sat there on the stoop...

"Mind on the rhythm. Wind in her hair. Ropes swinging high, gracing the air." Ganelle has never played Double Dutch a day in her life. She has only watched the high school girls jump, and they seemed to do it effortlessly. But in order to get her biggest bullies off of her back, she has no other choice but to learn how to jump and take them up on their challenge. This just might be the most dramatic Double Dutch competition "The Avenues" has ever seen