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After the shot drops

Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.

Main Author: Ribay, Randy,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Physical Description: 325 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
Best friends -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction.
Scholarships -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Basketball stories.
Scholarships -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Online Access: Lexile website
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Summary: Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
It's stupid we're still not talking because I want something more than what Whitman can offer. Out of everyone, I expected him to get that. Bunny's been feeling the pressure to make the most of his prodigious basketball skills: his mom works the graveyard shift, and his dad's bookstore isn't doing so hot. So when an exclusive prep school with a championship basketball team and a scholarship comes knocking, he answers. But this decision might have cost him his best friend. Everyone's so worried about helping Bunny. Why's nobody but me sweating Wallace's situation? Bunny's fine. Everyone's handing him the future on a silver platter. Nasir thought things were bad when Bunny ditched Whitman for St. Sebastian's without even asking his opinion, leaving him far behind. But when his cousin, Wallace, confides that he and his grandmother are being evicted, Nasir has bigger problems to deal with than Bunny's betrayal. When Wallace's situation becomes desperate, Bunny and Nasir will be forced to make choices with bigger consequences than a state title, and to decide just how much they're willing to risk for a friend. -- From dust jacket.
Item Description: Young Adult.
730 Lexile.
Reading Counts! 5.5.
Accelerated Reader UG 4.6 11.0.
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
It's stupid we're still not talking because I want something more than what Whitman can offer. Out of everyone, I expected him to get that. Bunny's been feeling the pressure to make the most of his prodigious basketball skills: his mom works the graveyard shift, and his dad's bookstore isn't doing so hot. So when an exclusive prep school with a championship basketball team and a scholarship comes knocking, he answers. But this decision might have cost him his best friend. Everyone's so worried about helping Bunny. Why's nobody but me sweating Wallace's situation? Bunny's fine. Everyone's handing him the future on a silver platter. Nasir thought things were bad when Bunny ditched Whitman for St. Sebastian's without even asking his opinion, leaving him far behind. But when his cousin, Wallace, confides that he and his grandmother are being evicted, Nasir has bigger problems to deal with than Bunny's betrayal. When Wallace's situation becomes desperate, Bunny and Nasir will be forced to make choices with bigger consequences than a state title, and to decide just how much they're willing to risk for a friend. -- From dust jacket.
Kirkuz Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018.
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018.
School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018.
Physical Description: 325 pages ; 22 cm.
Audience: Young Adult.
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Awards: Kirkuz Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018.
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018.
School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018.
ISBN: 9781328702272
1328702278

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