Feeling the pressures of Harlem life and its drug problems, police, and street fights, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out turns to boxing. Grades 10-up.
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Raiders Night
Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses a vicious assault on a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs. Grades 10-up.
Center Field
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school. Grades 7-up.