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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew QuickAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-06-18Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780316127967ISBN-10:316127965UPC:9780316127967Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Sports & Recreation, Boys & Men, Social ThemesBook Topic:Basketball, DepressionAward:2015 Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee - High School Award|2015 Nutmeg Book Award Nominee - High School AwardSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCZQKJANP5
You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights, and Finley is left to take care of his disabled grandfather alone. He's always dreamed of getting out someday, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay.

Russ has just moved to the neighborhood, and the life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won't pick up a basketball, but answers only to the name Boy21--taken from his former jersey number.

As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, a unique friendship may turn out to be the answer they both need.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780316127967ISBN-10:316127965UPC:9780316127967Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Sports & Recreation, Boys & Men, Social ThemesBook Topic:Basketball, DepressionAward:2015 Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee - High School Award|2015 Nutmeg Book Award Nominee - High School AwardSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCZQKJANP5
Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the author of The Silver Linings Playbook (Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and three young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Little, Brown & Co.). His work has received many honors--including a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention--been translated into many languages, and called "beautiful...first-rate" by The New York Times Book Review. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell have adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into a film starring Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence. Matthew lives in Massachusetts with his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette. His website is www.matthewquickwriter.com.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Awards

🏆 2015 Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee - High School Award|2015 Nutmeg Book Award Nominee - High School Award

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Matthew Quick

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