When you read a book like this, you realize how much a community is important. When a star basketball player choses to go to a private school to improve his chances at a basketball scholarship, he didn't realize that his best friend and almost everyone else from his neighborhood feel as though he deserted them. Now he is stuck not feeling like he is anywhere. But then when his best friend starts to talk to him again, we as the reader see that there are ulterior motives, which despite the good intentions turns out to be very, very wrong. I think in this book I learned, again, that I have a very one sided view in life. It's interesting that another Virginia Readers' choice book this year is all about having true grit as the ultimate decision of success. But when the world keeps closing its doors on you, then the choices are far less than for someone else with more security. Although this book did not support bad decisions, it did show that with support of community, friends, and family, life has more options than your own perspective.
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When you read a book like this, you realize how much a community is important. When a star basketball player choses to go to a private school to improve his chances at a basketball scholarship, he didn't realize that his best friend and almost everyone else from his neighborhood feel as though he deserted them. Now he is stuck not feeling like he is anywhere. But then when his best friend starts to talk to him again, we as the reader see that there are ulterior motives, which despite the good intentions turns out to be very, very wrong. I think in this book I learned, again, that I have a very one sided view in life. It's interesting that another Virginia Readers' choice book this year is all about having true grit as the ultimate decision of success. But when the world keeps closing its doors on you, then the choices are far less than for someone else with more security. Although this book did not support bad decisions, it did show that with support of community, friends, and family, life has more options than your own perspective.
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December 2023
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