Somewhere in the Darkness is a 1992 young adult realistic fiction novel written by Walter Dean Myers.
Jimmy Little is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in a New York City apartment with his legal guardian that he calls "Mama Jean".
But when he explains that he wanted to take Jimmy with him across the country, Mama Jean is worried about what could happen on that trip.
Crab takes Jimmy to Arkansas to meet his friends before he was wrongly put in jail.
[4] Critical reception has been positive and Ellen Creager of the Detroit Free Press noted that Something in the Darkness would be good for classroom readings.
[8] After the book's publication Myers stated that he received "very touching letters from people who were separated from their fathers.