Sixteen-year-old New Yorker Jamal Wallace is a standout basketball player with a secret passion for literature. William Forrester is a Pulitzer winning author turned recluse who lives in the same neighborhood. After a chance meeting, Forrester becomes mentor to the boy, and the two form an unlikely friendship.
year: 2001
call number/section: 1000
subjects: authors, drama, friendship, recluses, fiction, new york (n.y.), drama, fiction, hermits
Editions
Connery, Sean
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001)
A reclusive white Pulitzer Prize winning author and a sixteen-year-old African-American basketball player with a secret passion for literature meet by chance and form an unlikely friendship.
Schools: 6
Connery, Sean
Sixteen-year-old New Yorker Jamal Wallace is a standout basketball player with a secret passion for literature. William Forrester is a Pulitzer winning author turned recluse who lives in the same neighborhood. After a chance meeting, Forrester becomes mentor to the boy, and the two form an unlikely friendship.
Schools: 1