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Black and White Hardback - 2005

by Paul Volponi

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Marcus and Eddie are best friends. They're also stars on the basketball court, where they're known as Black and White. Race has never been an issue: Marcus is black, Eddie is white, but it doesn't matter. Until they start to pull stickups for extra pocket cash and the gun they're using goes off. Now Marcus is going to jail and Eddie is going to college, even though Eddie is the one who fired the gun.

Told in their two voices, Black and White is the gripping story of two good boys who make a bad mistake. It's also a heart-breaking look at the realities of the urban criminal justice system. Written with passion and uncanny authenticity, this is Paul Volponi's debut young adult novel.

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Marcus and Eddie are best friends. They're also stars on the basketball court, where they're known as Black and White. Race has never been an issue: Marcus is black, Eddie is white, but it doesn't matter. Until they start to pull stickups for extra pocket cash and the gun they're using goes off. Now Marcus is going to jail and Eddie is going to college, even though Eddie is the one who fired the gun.

Told in their two voices, "Black and White" is the gripping story of two good boys who make a bad mistake. It's also a heart-breaking look at the realities of the urban criminal justice system. Written with passion and uncanny authenticity, this is Paul Volponi's debut young adult novel.

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  • Title Black and White
  • Author Paul Volponi
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Pages 185
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Children's Books, New York
  • Publication date 2005-05-05
  • ISBN 9780670060061 / 0670060062
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.72 x 0.76 in (21.74 x 14.53 x 1.93 cm)
  • Age range 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 710
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Race relations, Schools
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004024543
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"The plotting is tight, the action is swift, and the troubling outcome that finds Marcus headed to Prison and Eddie off to college is, sadly all too believable." -Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review

"Using authentic voices that will draw in both strong and reluctant readers, Volponi writes a taut novel, avoiding didactism and deftly balancing the drama and passion on the basketball court with each boy’s private terror and anguish. Teens will want to discuss the story’s layered moral ambiguities, heartbreaking choices, and as Marcus says, “the line that separates black and white." -Booklist, starred review

About the author

Paul Volponi is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novel "Black & White." From 1992 to 1998, he taught adolescents on Rikers Island in New York City to read and write. Mr. Volponi worked at a day treatment center like Daytop teaching students and helping them prepare for the GED. Mr. Volponi lives in New York City.
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