Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2015 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
About This Book
You can lose yourself in repetition-quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.
Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in gray, broken Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish Mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, he takes care of his disabled grandfather, and at school he's called "White Rabbit", the only white kid on the varsity basketball team. He's always dreamed of getting out somehow with his girlfriend, Erin. But until then, when he puts on his number 21, everything seems to make sense.
Russ has just moved to the neighborhood. A former teen basketball phenom from a pirvileged home, his life has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he now answers only to the name Boy21--his former jersey number--and has an unusual obsession with outer space.
As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, "Boy21" may turn out to be the answer they both need.
Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in gray, broken Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish Mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, he takes care of his disabled grandfather, and at school he's called "White Rabbit", the only white kid on the varsity basketball team. He's always dreamed of getting out somehow with his girlfriend, Erin. But until then, when he puts on his number 21, everything seems to make sense.
Russ has just moved to the neighborhood. A former teen basketball phenom from a pirvileged home, his life has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he now answers only to the name Boy21--his former jersey number--and has an unusual obsession with outer space.
As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, "Boy21" may turn out to be the answer they both need.
Awards
Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
2015 · Young Adult · Nominee
Keystone to Reading Book Award
2015 · High School · Nominee
Nutmeg Book Award
2015 · High School · Nominee
Sequoyah Book Award
2015 · High School · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2015 · High School · Nominee
Gateway Readers Award
2014 · High School · Nominee
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2014 · Young Adult · Nominee
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
2013 · Young Adult · Nominee
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
2013 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Tayshas Reading
2013 · Young Adult · Commended
Cybils
2012 · Young Adult Fiction · Finalist
L.A. Times Book Prize
2012 · Young Adult Literature · Finalist
