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 Peña.
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.
| ISBN: | 9780062453129 |
| Publication date: | 13th August 2019 |
| Author: | Geoff Herbach |
| Publisher: | Katherine Tegen Books an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Basketball Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Adoption / fostering Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees Children’s / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories Children’s / Teenage fiction: Romance and love stories Stories about Family and Friends Sporting Stories Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and growing up / coming of age Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |