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Author Graham-Felsen, Sam, author

Title Green : A Novel / Sam Graham-Felsen

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Fiction Cellar  G76185 .g    AVAILABLE  
 UMM Stacks  PS3607.R34765 G74 2018    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr 301 pages ; 22 cm
Note Text in English
Summary Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely--he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar's a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave's own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave's assumptions about black culture: He's nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Mar's coming over to Dave's house every afternoon to watch vintage basketball tapes and plot their hustle to Harvard. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar's. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he's been given--and that Mar has not.--Provided by Publisher
Subject Interracial friendship -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Fiction
Middle school boys -- Fiction
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
OCLC # 973480840
ISBN # 9780399591143
0399591141