It’s been nearly two years since Marcus Brown went to prison alone for a crime that he and his former best friend, Eddie Russo, committed together. Now Marcus is back home, hoping to rebuild his life, focusing on his family and praying for a basketball scholarship to any school that might take a chance on an ex-con. Meanwhile, Eddie Russo has been living the life of a celebrated college athlete, enjoying all the perks that come with stardom. Will this once inseparable pair ever find common ground again, standing shoulder-to-shoulder while having each other’s backs? Find out in Marcus and Eddie, the long-awaited conclusion to the award-winning young adult novel Black and White.
Paul Volponi’s Black and White is the winner of the International Reading Association’s 2006 Young Adult Novel of the Year, an American Library Association Best Book Young Adult and Quick Pick (inspiring non-readers to read) Top Ten selection, and a New York City Public Library Book for the Teen Age selection. It is also a selection of the Texas Library
Association’s TAYSHAS high school reading list. The novel, now a staple in many high school and middle school English
classes around the country, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and The Bulletin of the Center for
Children’s Books.
Genre: Urban Fiction
Paul Volponi’s Black and White is the winner of the International Reading Association’s 2006 Young Adult Novel of the Year, an American Library Association Best Book Young Adult and Quick Pick (inspiring non-readers to read) Top Ten selection, and a New York City Public Library Book for the Teen Age selection. It is also a selection of the Texas Library
Association’s TAYSHAS high school reading list. The novel, now a staple in many high school and middle school English
classes around the country, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and The Bulletin of the Center for
Children’s Books.
Genre: Urban Fiction
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