That Was Then This is Now

That Was Then This is Now
By: S. E. Hinton


(Realistic Fiction)  

Since childhood Bryon and Mark have been like brothers, but times are changing.  The book starts with Bryon's birth mother and Mark's adoptive mother being in the hospital.  Mark and Bryon have been working to make money while their mother was in the hospital.  Later in the book you find out Mark has been getting his cash from selling drugs to hippies.  Bryon calls the cops after he found the drugs, and told Mark about it when he came home.  Mark was mad that he called the cops on him.  He later was sent to reformatory school and sent to prison.