Central Kansas Library System

This novel "has a basketball theme and plenty of action, but sport is merely the vehicle for delivering a serious story of friendship and madness" between two youths--one black and one white--in trouble.

The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.

Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.

This story set in Ruby, Oklahoma is about an African American community.

One street. One block. Ten unforgettable stories. Some of these stories are the ones behind the headlines, the lives that go on after the facts fade from the news. Others are private, even mysterious. Salty, wrenchingly honest, here are stories whose characters jump off the page to pull readers into their lives.