Recounts the extraordinary friendship between Jerome Foxworthy, a top stuent, loving son, basketball star, and first black to integrate his southern high school, and Bix, a white athlete facing a crisis in his life.
As Shark's hockey game improves and he becomes a puck hog, he alienates himself from his teammates and discovers that a nickname must be earned, not take for granted.
When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game.
After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
Celebrates the joy of being a boy and discusses a variety of topics relevant to boys, including hats, sports, risky pals, and bullies. Boys and their relationship to mothers is also discussed.
In his twenty-first century society, fourteen-year-old Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.
