Swing

By Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess

Subjects: nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2018-10-21, Baseball, fiction, Baseball stories, School sports, Teenagers, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Friendship, fiction, New York Times bestseller, High schools, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Letters, Children's fiction, Attitude (Psychology), Man-woman relationships, Letters, fiction, Adolescence, fiction, Best friends

Description: Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt have just been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Samantha, will never take it past the "best friend" zone.