The Resource Boy21, by Matthew Quick
Boy21, by Matthew Quick
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The item Boy21, by Matthew Quick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Boy21, by Matthew Quick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Extent
- 250 p.
- Note
-
- Originally published in 2012 in Hardcover by Little, Brown and Co
- Includes a reading group guide
- Includes excerpt of author's upcoming book Sorta like a rock star
- Isbn
- 9780316127967
- Label
- Boy21
- Title
- Boy21
- Statement of responsibility
- by Matthew Quick
- Title variation
-
- Boy 21
- Boy twenty-one
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Basketball -- Fiction
- Basketball stories
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Gangsters -- Fiction
- Gangsters -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- Violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Quick, Matthew
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.Q3185
- LC item number
- Bo 2012
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Emotional problems of teenagers
- Irish Americans
- Gangsters
- High schools
- Violence
- Basketball stories
- Friendship
- African Americans
- Pennsylvania
- Emotional problems
- Irish Americans
- Gangsters
- High schools
- Violence
- Basketball
- Friendship
- African Americans
- Pennsylvania
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Boy21, by Matthew Quick
- Note
-
- Originally published in 2012 in Hardcover by Little, Brown and Co
- Includes a reading group guide
- Includes excerpt of author's upcoming book Sorta like a rock star
- Control code
- ocn816563489
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Extent
- 250 p.
- Isbn
- 9780316127967
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Label
- Boy21, by Matthew Quick
- Note
-
- Originally published in 2012 in Hardcover by Little, Brown and Co
- Includes a reading group guide
- Includes excerpt of author's upcoming book Sorta like a rock star
- Control code
- ocn816563489
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Extent
- 250 p.
- Isbn
- 9780316127967
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
Subject
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Basketball -- Fiction
- Basketball stories
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Gangsters -- Fiction
- Gangsters -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- Violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
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