Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. It's sophomore year and Nick is trying to deal with his parents' divorce. He also really wants to be a star on the basketball team. Trent, his neighbor, is angry, and aggressive. The two form an uneasy bond as they quietly practi...
When a hard ball is coming at you fast, and when it's dancing, too, every single nerve in your body is alert and ready. Your eyes are wide open, and the adrenaline is pumping. It's not a feeling you want to give up, any more than you want to get off a roller coaster. In his senior year of high s...
I was taken on a rollercoaster through the life of a naive, ignorant and innocent juvenile. At the end of Runner, I was left quite satisfied. The author had me hooked. While reading the novel, I forgot about the life I live and was put into the life of a boy. This page turning hunk of 216 pages l...
But by then I hated the house in Sound Ridge, too, hated that I was hiding in my own house, not wanting to see any of the neighbors, all the time feeling that they were watching us, talking about us, waiting for us to leave. Goodbye to all of you, I thought when we'd finally finished loading the ...
"The Seattle Times took my photograph," she said over and over. "I can't believe it." "It was a great photo." She leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. "Thank you, Mitch. This wouldn't have happened without you." It was a kiss she might give a brother, but it was a kiss. I tried not to turn red...
"It's just because your run was the last play that everybody remembers it," DeShawn said. "If it hadn't been for what you did earlier, we wouldn't have had a chance to win. Besides, did you see the arms on that guy who hit you? They were like my legs. I swear to God, he had to have been on steroi...
He’d see that Garfield had wiped us out, and that I’d done nothing. Would he know that Garfield guys were headed to major colleges? I was almost positive he would. Almost. Monday morning I stopped by Levi’s house on the way to Harding. “He left twenty minutes ago,” his father said. I turned to le...