Quick, Matthew,

Boy21 / Boy 21 Boy twenty-one by Matthew Quick. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., c2012. - 250 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780316127974 0316127973

LCCN: 2010047995

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Emotional problems of teenagers
Irish Americans
Gangsters
High schools
Violence
Basketball stories.
Friendship
African Americans

Dewey Class. No.: F QUI