All-American
By: John R. Tunis.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1989
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Football -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction
Description: After he and a fellow player on the football field gang up on a Jewish member of the opposing team and cause him a serious neck injury, seventeen-year-old Ronny leaves his elite all-white private school for the integrated public high school, where he discovers that the practice of democracy takes courage and loyalty to one's principles.
Notes: "An Odyssey classic."