Library's review
A book about friendship, prejudice, desegregation, adolescent males, and the complexities and tension of racial integration in the 1965 world of high school football.
Publication
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2014), Edition: First Edition, 272 pages
Description
Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high school football players, one white, one black, become friends, but some changes are too difficult to accept.
Awards
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
Gateway Readers Award (Nominee — 2017)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2016)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Teens (Fiction — 2014)
Language
Original language
English
Pages
272
Physical description
272 p.; 8.25 inches
ISBN
1442497939 / 9781442497931
DDC/MDS
| 272 |