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Apr 26, 2023JerryJennings rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Boy21 by Matthew Quick (2012) is a YA novel. Matthew Quick also wrote The Silver Linings Playbook which was made into a successful movie. With Boy21, Quick has once again given the reader a well defined and curiously uncommon set of…
Oct 17, 2016JCLDebbieF rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Mr. Quick is about the only person I know that can pull off a story about two unlikely teen boys who've had traumatic experiences in their lives. One seldom speaks and the other believes he's from outer-space. How in the world will these…
Feb 16, 2016MapleValleyTeens rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A story of two teen boys, one white and one black, who are from different worlds, not just because the color of their skin. On the surface basketball brings them together, but really it is their complicated pasts. Sports. Friendship.…
Jun 06, 2013WestSeattleTeenLibrarian rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Really strong story about two boys who share more than they realize as they both deal with personal tragedy and help each other out.
Oct 30, 2012GuyN rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book made me think. Although basketball figures in the framework of this story one would be better off reading Ball Don't Lie to feel the rhythym of a crossover dribble or a game in the hood. This book is truly about two young men…
Aug 08, 2012sldoug rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This was a very promising book that started strongly. The characters were realistic, the plot was compelling, I really wanted to know what was going to happen next. But the book was short and the plot was long, so all the major events got…
Jun 13, 2012
Coach is all right. I can trust HIM. Can't trust too many other people with the Irish Mob & the gangsters always around. Or at least, that's what Finley thinks. Then coach asks him to befired Russ a.k.a "Boy 21", a nationally recruited…