Boy 21 /
Boy21 Boy twenty-one
by Matthew Quick. --
- 1st pbk. ed. --
- New York : Little, Brown, 2013, c2012.
- 250 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes discussion guide.
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. 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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Teenage boys--Fiction. High school athletes--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.