When Francisco, gifted student and basketball player from Spanish Harlem, receives a scholarship to a distinguished boarding school, his fellow students view him as an outsider and assume the worst about him. In addition, his former friends no longer accept him as one of them, leaving Francisco in a difficult position and unsure how to proceed.
year: 2013, 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: friendship, fiction, death, school stories, hispanic americans, basketball, new york (n.y.), fiction, gangs, fiction, basketball players, boarding schools, identity (philosophical concept), teenagers, new york (state), fiction, harlem (new york, ny)
Editions
Takoudes, Greg
Christy Ottaviano Books (2013)
When Francisco, gifted student and basketball player from Spanish Harlem, receives a scholarship to a distinguished boarding school, his fellow students view him as an outsider and assume the worst about him. In addition, his former friends no longer accept him as one of them, leaving Francisco in a difficult position and unsure how to proceed.
Schools: 7
Takoudes, Greg
Square Fish (2015)
Novel adaptation of the author's feature film, "Up With Me.".
Schools: 0