TY - BOOK AU - Quick,Matthew TI - Boy 21 SN - 0316127965 AV - PZ7.Q3185 Bo 2013 U1 - [Fic] 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Co. KW - Emotional problems KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Irish Americans KW - Gangs KW - High schools KW - Violence KW - Basketball KW - Friendship KW - African Americans KW - Pennsylvania N1 - School Library Journal, March 2012; Publisher's Weekly, January 2012; Kirkus Starred, February 2012; Booklist, March 2012; New York Times, March 2012; Horn Book, November 2012; Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2011; Library Media Connection, January 2012; Young Adult; Follett School Solutions; Accelerated Reader AR; UG; 4.9; 8.0; 151132; NBEV N2 - 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 ER -