This way home

By Wes Moore

Subjects: Basketball stories, Veterans, African Americans, Basketball, Gangs, Fiction, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Best friends, Friendship

Description: Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.