num_pages: 240
description: With her mom working crazy hours at a dilapidated motel and her sister on welfare, fourteen-year-old Keisha is determined to attend Avery University for a precollege premed program but is instead sent to a summer program for at-risk kids where she discovers a passion for swimming, in a novel that details the many challenges one must face to succeed.
language: English
title: Born In Sin
titlecomplete: Born In Sin
genres: African American, Sports, Teen, Young Adult
ratings_count: 82
publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books