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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School Library Journal, March 2012 Publisher's Weekly, January 2012 Kirkus Starred, February 2012 Booklist, March 2012 New York Times, March 2012 Horn Book, November 2012 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2011 Library Media Connection, January 2012
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