Basketball, friendship, and difficult choices
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Basketball, friendship, and difficult choices
Basketball brings Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson together, but the novel’s concerns reach beyond the game. As their lives become intertwined over the course of a season, the story examines the uncertain boundaries between loneliness and friendship, loyalty and betrayal. The basketball season provides a shared setting for a relationship that challenges assumptions about how much people owe one another—and whether they are willing to offer help. The description also highlights the novel’s game scenes, alongside its focus on connection and moral choices.
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Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. Or so it seems. But as the basketball season progresses, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined. In this story of an unlikely bond, award-winning author Carl Deuker explores that dark and confusing place between loneliness and friendship, between faithfulness and betrayal. Filled with gripping game play, the novel will leave readers wondering how much they themselves would reach out to a kid like Trent.
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