Black Boy White School

Black Boy White School

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Series: 25 Boarding School Books
ASIN: B005C72MKC

Anthony "Ant" Jones has never left his East Cleveland neighborhood when he receives a scholarship to an almost all-white elite prep school in Maine. Classmates at Belton Academy make all kinds of assumptions about him but Ant finds he no longer fully fits in back home either. A moving YA debut about learning how to stay true to yourself.

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In a hard-hitting novel about fitting in—or not—Anthony “Ant” Jones gets transported from his East Cleveland hood to an almost all-white prep school and has to figure out where he belongs…before he loses himself entirely. Black Boy White School is a memorable debut that will appeal to fans of Walter Dean Myers and Sherman Alexie.

Anthony has never been outside his rough neighborhood when he receives a scholarship to Belton Academy, an elite prep school in Maine. But at Belton things are far from perfect. Everyone calls him “Tony,” assumes he’s from Brooklyn, expects him to play basketball, and yet acts shocked when he fights back.

As Anthony tries to adapt to a world that will never fully accept him, he’s in for a rude awakening: Home is becoming a place where he no longer belongs.

In debut author Brian F. Walker’s honest and dynamic novel about staying true to yourself, Anthony might find a way to survive at Belton, but what will it cost him?

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