Black boy/white school

Black boy/white school

2012 • 256 pages

When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to 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 goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.


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The characters and dialogue in this novel are excellent and true to life. I enjoyed the story and how the book deals with the complexities of race and class. The language, however, might make this book inappropriate for school reading.

March 5, 2012