This book not only made me care about Jerome Foxworthy and Bix Rivers, it made me fall in love with basketball. The Jayfox, as narrator Jerome Foxworthy is called, first notices Braxton Rivers the Third as the fine shortstop at a summer baseball game in Wilmington, North Carolina. Later, when Jerome is the first to integrate Bix’s lily-white school, they encounter one another again in a home ec class where they bond in a protest against making mock apple pie.

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Powerful story about friendship and family and how each can make us heroically strong or frighteningly fragile. ( )