Paul Volponi, Author . Viking $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-06006-1
Volponi's (Rikers
) excellent novel has it all: authentic characters, a thought-provoking plot and heartbreaking drama. Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo are best friends and basketball stars at a Queens, N.Y., high school, well-known not only for...
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Paul Volponi, Author . S&S/Atheneum $16.99 (151p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3987-0
Five months after his beloved mother's death, 17-year-old Gaston Giambanco Jr., aka Gas, runs away from his Texas home and his drunken, racist father's escalating abuse. With no place to go, he winds up in a truck with three Mexicans...
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Paul Volponi, Author . Viking $16.99 (246p) ISBN 978-0-670-01107-0
Volponi (Homestretch
) recasts his adult novel, Rikers
(Black Heron, 2002), for a teen audience that will likely be riveted. Seventeen-year-old Martin Stokes has been imprisoned for five months, awaiting trial for a petty crime. Returning from...
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Paul Volponi, Author Viking Books $15.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-670-06069-6
After 17-year-old Clay's parents catch him smoking pot, they pull him from Long Island City High School and enroll him at a day treatment facility, where he gets counseling for addiction while working towards a GED. Five months into the program,...
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Paul Volponi. Viking, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-01214-5
Message trumps story in this chronicle of homophobia set on the gridiron. High school jock Adonis (really), a formerly pudgy kid, operates cautiously, constantly worried he'll be the next target of the bullies on his team. But they've got their...
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Paul Volponi. Rowman & Littlefield, $28 (204p) ISBN 978-1-5381-3927-1
The summer after he graduates from high school in the late 1970s, author Volponi cares about one thing: proving himself in the notoriously tough street basketball games that are a regular fixture in New York City parks. An only child of hardworking...
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