About this book

In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • basketball
  • basketball, fiction
  • basketball stories
  • children's fiction
  • children's stories
  • families
  • family, fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile fiction / boys & men
  • juvenile fiction / family / multigenerational
  • juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 20th century
  • juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / african american
  • juvenile fiction / sports & recreation / general
  • new york times bestseller
  • novels in verse
  • nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2018-04-22
  • sports & recreation
  • washington (d.c.), fiction