num_pages: 250
description: Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in gray broken Bellmont a town ruled by the Irish Mob drugs violence and racially charged rivalries. At home he takes care of his disabled grandfather and at school hes called White Rabbit the only white kid on the varsity basketball team. Hes always dreamed of getting out somehow with his girlfriend Erin. But until then when he puts on his number 21 everything seems to make sense.Russ has just moved to the neighborhood. A former teen basketball phenom from a privileged home his life has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows he now answers only to the name Boy21his former jersey numberand has an unusual obsession with outer space.As their final year of high school brings these two boys together Boy21 may turn out to be the answer they both need.
language: English
title: Boy21
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers