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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
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About the Author:
Paul Volponi has written for a variety of publications. From 1992 to 1998, he taught adolescents on Rikers Island in New York City to read and write. Since then he has worked at a day treatment center and school. He lives in New York City.
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*Starred Review* Gr. 9-12. "Kids who are different colors don't get to be all that tight in my neighborhood. But we get past all that racial crap," says Marcus, an African American senior whose best friend, Eddie, is white. Together, the boys are known at school as Black and White. Both are basketball stars entertaining scholarship offers from local New York City colleges, but they risk everything for more spending money. Considering fast-food jobs too demeaning, they turn to armed stickups, and during their third robbery, they shoot and wound their victim. In alternating chapters, Marcus and Eddie recount the terrifying days after the event as they wait for the police to find and arrest them. The disparate treatment each receives highlights their racial divide, which is occasionally echoed on the streets in harsh language full of hate: a man on the subway tells a white girl that "niggers are going to fuck you, too." Using authentic voices that will draw in both strong and reluctant readers, Volponi writes a taut novel that avoids didacticism and deftly balances drama and passion on the basketball court with each boy's private terror and anguish. Teens will want to discuss the story's layered moral ambiguities, heartbreaking choices, and, as Marcus says, "the line that separates black and white." Gillian Engberg
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- PublisherTurtleback Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1417764252
- ISBN 13 9781417764259
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages208
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