Black Boy White School
- ISBN-10
- 0061914835
- ISBN-13
- 9780061914836
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-03
- Publisher
- HarperTeen
- Author
- Brian F. Walker
Description
When 14-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, is awarded a scholarship to attend a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he returns home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either. 25,000 first printing.
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