If you like basketball, you want to hear and read about this book. The conflict is where Adam could lose his basketball team and not be able to play. It relates to Adam because it's about how he could not play basketball anymore. Adam Reed, his mom Renata, and Kase Kinshaw. Adam Reed is the main character he wants to go to college to play basketball. Renata took him when his parents died. She treats him well and helps him to get to college. Kase Kinshaw is a really good friend of Adam she takes him to practice. She tries to talk to him but he doesn’t talk that much. Adam thinks that she likes him. The theme is if you are good at something you should keep doing it. He has gotten better at basketball and he stayed in basketball. I recommend this novel because it’s a good book, but (or "although") the part that I didn’t like is where Adam Reed isn’t playing basketball, so if you like basketball you would like this book. ( )

I abandoned this book only because I'm currently restricting my reading to books for kids age 9-12. This book has a little profanity, but of the little I read it seemed to be an interesting book. If I were reading for middle school and high school I would definitely read this one.

A Polish orphan, Adam was adopted by an American. Now living in Minnesota, his basketball skills have brought him to a spot on an elite high school team. His language skills and natural awkwardness have always kept him separate from other teens, but now his skin color is an issue - he is the only white boy on the team. When a team member is arrested and threateded with expulsion for something he didn't do, Adama must make a choice whether or not to stand with his teammates. ( )