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Title Statement | Boy21 / by Matthew Quick. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Boy 21 Boy twenty-one |
Author | Quick, Matthew, 1973- |
Publication | New York: Little, Brown, 2012. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Extent of Item | 250 p. |
ISBN | 0316127973 9780316127974 |
Other Number | 2217144 |
Summary | 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. |
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By Topic | Teenage boys--Fiction |
High school students--Fiction | |
Irish Americans--Fiction | |
African Americans--Fiction | |
Male friendship--Fiction | |
Victims of violent crimes--Fiction | |
Emotional problems of teenagers--Fiction | |
Gangs--Fiction | |
High schools--Fiction | |
By Location | Pennsylvania--Fiction |
By Genre | Basketball stories |