num_pages: 326
description: From Geoff Herbach the critically acclaimed author of the Stupid Fast series comes a compelling new YA novel about basketball prejudice privilege and family perfect for fans of Jordan Sonnenblick Andrew Smith and Matt de la Pea.For Adam Reed basketball is a passport. Adams basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When hes tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships to the girl of his dreams to a better future.But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police threatens to break apart the bonds Adams finally formed after a lifetime of struggle he must make an impossible choice between his new family and the sport thats given him everything.
language: English
title: Hooper
publisher: Katherine Tegen Books