Boy 21 / by Matthew Quick.

By: Quick, M. (Matthew)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown, 2013Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: 250 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0316127965 :; 9780316127967Other title: Boy21 | Boy twenty-oneSubject(s): Emotional problems of teenagers -- Fiction | Irish Americans -- Fiction | Gangsters -- Fiction | High schools -- Fiction | Violence -- Fiction | Basketball stories | Friendship -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | Pennsylvania -- FictionSummary: 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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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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