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Boy21

by Matthew Quick

Organized crimeIrish AmericansYoung adult fictionEmotional problemsViolenceTeenagersFictionGangsters

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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Book data: Open Library