Serge, a recruit from Sudan, arrives in Chicago to play high school basketball, and has a difficult time fitting in with his teammates, experiences culture shock, and can not let go of thoughts of his father and older brother being killed by rebels back in Sudan. Will he be able to put the past behind him and make a life in America?.
year: 2016
call number/section: 1000
subjects: basketball, juvenile fiction, high schools, inner cities, fiction, chicago (ill.), juvenile fiction, fiction, basketball players, chicago, sudan, teamwork (sports), schools, chicago (ill.), school stories, sudan, history, darfur conflict, 2003-, sports stories, electronic books
Editions
Moussavi, Sam
EPIC Press (2016)
Serge, a recruit from Sudan, arrives in Chicago to play high school basketball, and has a difficult time fitting in with his teammates, experiences culture shock, and can not let go of thoughts of his father and older brother being killed by rebels back in Sudan. Will he be able to put the past behind him and make a life in America?.
Schools: 10
Moussavi, Sam
When Serge is recruited from the Sudan to come play basketball at a high profile prep school in Chicago, there are bigger obstacles than culture shock to contend with. Serge must try to put his past behind him and use basketball to make something of his life in America.
Schools: 1