Boy 21
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316127974
- ISBN: 0316127973
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Physical Description:
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250 p. ; 22 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Novel. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, High School, 2015. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | YOUNG ADULT QUICK, M. (Text) | 32544072221400 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | YA FIC Qui (Text) | 33160102479188 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bolton High School | FIC QUI (Text) | 34062102947264 | Fiction | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | YA QUI (Text) | 33210000311882 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | yQUI (Text) | 33180123714207 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | TEEN FIC QUICK,M (Text) | 34026122954014 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Guilford Smith Library - South Windham | YA QUI (Text) | 34059127370613 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | YA QUICK, MATTHEW (sports) (Text) | 34037124509714 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | QUICK Matthew (Text) | 34013076969586 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | YA FIC QUICK, M (Text) | 34005115706615 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Boy21
Matthew Quick graduated with a double-majored in English and secondary education from La Salle University in 1996. He taught literature and film at Haddonfield Memorial High School in New Jersey for several years, before leaving in 2004 to become a fiction writer. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2007. He writes for young adults and adults. His young adult books include Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. His adult books include The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film, and The Good Luck of Right Now. (Bowker Author Biography)