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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 priva...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quick, Matthew, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Emotional problems of teenagers > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Gangsters > Juvenile fiction.
High schools > Juvenile fiction.
Violence > Juvenile fiction.
Basketball stories.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania > Juvenile fiction.
Emotional problems > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Gangsters > Fiction.
High schools > Fiction.
Violence > Fiction.
Basketball > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Pennsylvania > Fiction.
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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.
Physical Description:250 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780316127974
0316127973