Boys from Different Background Who Dream of Becoming Doctors and Became Best Friends: A Book about Race, Acceptance and Crossing Cultural Lines Paperback - 2012

Author Kenrick Smith: Puts together a kid's MUST READ. This is a great book and a fun read for preteen and teenagers; this story will leave you wanting more. With all the racial tension and cultural wars that are going on in the world today, may leave many to believe that there is no true love and real friendship between other races. But here comes a great book about Race, Racial Acceptance AND Crossing Cultural Lines that will make you believe in the heart of kindness and humanity. "Boys from Different Background Who Dream of Becoming Doctors and Became Best Friends for Life." This is a book about race, acceptance and crossing cultural lines. Ted a white kid, and Rob who is black met in middle school and became best of friends. Until, Ted introduces Rob to his parents for the first time, who was very surprised to find out that their son's best friend was black. And how that unforeseen blackness brought a shock to their home and cultural belief system. And they had to do some gut checking to see what their family believed about accepting another ethnicity. Come go with Rob and Ted on a heartwarming and touching story. See how a true friendship was able to stay together, one in which was almost ripped apart because of once preconceived notions that all black kids are bad people. But Rob and Ted remained committed to their friendship by accepting each other for who they are and not for what someone else was willing to make them out to be. Come see how a little love and acceptance was able to bring their families and a whole community together to work for good.