From Geoff Herbach, the critically acclaimed author of the Stupid Fast series, comes a compelling new YA novel about basketball, prejudice, privilege, and family, perfect for fans of Jordan Sonnenblick, Andrew Smith, and Matt de la Pe a.
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police threatens to break apart the bonds Adam's finally formed after a lifetime of struggle, he must make an impossible choice between his new family and the sport that's given him everything.
--Gae Polisner, author of In Sight of Stars and The Memory of Things
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Published: 02/20/2018
ISBN: 9780062453112
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Booklist 11/01/2017 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2017
School Library Journal 12/01/2017
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 195616 / Hooper
Reading Level: 3.8 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 9
