Jones, Patrick

After spending time in a juvenile detention center for a crime related to severe anger issues, seventeen-year-old Jada Robinson is sent to a foster home and enrolled in an alternative high school, and begins to move past her old life.

"When an African American student transfers from an inner-city basketball team to the suburbs, tension among the players and the coach erupts along racial lines. To the anger of his teammates, the coach kicks him off the team after he gets into a fight. Can a social media movement get him back on the court?"--.

Cody's basketball team, the Rebels, has an almost perfect record, thanks to the skills of his best friend Jayson "Dominator" Davis. Jayson is new to the team and to the nearly all-white high school. Tension between the coach and Jayson has simmered since he transferred from the inner city. When Coach kicks Jayson off the team, more than the school's record is at stake. A school-wide dispute falls along racial lines, and Cody finds himself at the center. Can Cody step up his game where it really counts?.

In nineteenth-century New York City, teenaged Leung promises not to compete in bareknuckle boxing matches until he fixes his sloppy technique, but when his uncle's gambling debts get out of control, Leung must enter the ring to save him.

On the court, he makes up for what he lacks in skill with hard work and hustle. He expects a lot from himself, but his standards are challenged when he discovers some players are cheating in school. He takes his role as team captain seriously, but will exposing the wrongdoing of teammates put their tournament in jeopardy?.

A former benchwarmer's growth spurt puts him at the center of attention on the court in his senior year. Despite dreams of pulling his family out of poverty with his skills in the game, the temptations of inner-city life win out over homework and studying. Can he pull it together in time to pull himself and his family to a better future?.

Her impossible three-pointers make her the top shooter on her basketball team, until her sister is injured in a drive-by shooting. Instantly, her life is derailed by stress and lack of sleep. She becomes the crime's second victim. Can she find the resources she needs to save her scholarship season?.

At odds with his sister, Tina, fourteen, who says their father murdered their mother, Todd, fifteen, who claims it was self-defense, begins to lose faith in their father when he pressures Todd to get Tina to change her story, and being in separate foster homes only makes things harder.

Seventeen years after she was born to a prison inmate, Deja agrees to raise her newest half-sister for the first six months, until their mother's next release, but despite the help of friends and relatives and a support program at school, caring for a baby proves to be a monumental task.

Since her mother went to prison to await execution, eleventh-grader Camila Hernandez has been shuffled from one aunt to another, avoiding friendships and keeping to herself in hopes no one will learn her secret, and worrying that she will turn out to be a criminal, too.