Boy21

By Matthew Quick

Subjects: Organized crime, Young adult fiction, Teenagers, High schools, Gangsters, Fiction, Irish Americans, Violence, Friendship, Emotional problems

Description: 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.