Boy21
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 250 pages ; 22 cm
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Subjects:
Emotional problems of teenagers -- Teen fiction.
Irish Americans -- Teen fiction.
Gangsters -- Teen fiction.
High schools -- Teen Fiction.
Violence -- Teen fiction.
Basketball stories.
Friendship -- Teen fiction.
African Americans -- Teen fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Teen fiction.
Emotional problems of teenagers -- Teen fiction.
Irish Americans -- Teen fiction.
Gangsters -- Teen fiction.
High schools -- Teen Fiction.
Violence -- Teen fiction.
Basketball stories.
Friendship -- Teen fiction.
African Americans -- Teen fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Teen fiction.
Target Audience: 830L
ISBN:
9780316127974