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Dough Boys

Original price was: $16.99.Current price is: $7.49.

ISBN:
9780062691811

Publisher:

Greenwillow Books

Language:

English

Page Count:
327

Publication Date:
1/1/2018

Size:
8.60″ l x 5.60″ w x 1.12″

Series:

N/A

Category
Subject

Tweens Fiction

Social Situations

Tweens Fiction

Family|ISBN:
9780062691811

Publisher:

Greenwillow Books

Language:

English

Page Count:
327

Publication Date:
1/1/2018

Size:
8.60″ l x 5.60″ w x 1.12″

Series:

N/A|Category
Subject

Tweens Fiction

Social Situations

Tweens Fiction

Family

Additional information

Weight 0.9 lbs
Dimensions 8.6 × 1.12 × 5.6 in

Only 2 left in stock

Description

In the companion to her acclaimed So Done, Paula Chase follows best friends Simp and Rollie as their friendship is threatened by the pressures of basketball, upcoming auditions, middle school, and their growing involvement in the local drug ring.
Dough Boys is a memorably vivid story about the complex friendship between two African American boys whose lives are heading down very different paths. For fans of Jason Reynolds?s Ghost and Rebecca Stead?s Goodbye Stranger.
Deontae ?Simp? Wright has big plans for his future. Plans that involve basketball, his best friend, Rollie, and making enough money to get his mom and four younger brothers out of the Cove, their low-income housing project.
Long term, this means the NBA. Short term, it means being a dough boy?getting…|In the companion to her acclaimed So Done, Paula Chase follows best friends Simp and Rollie as their friendship is threatened by the pressures of basketball, upcoming auditions, middle school, and their growing involvement in the local drug ring.
Dough Boys is a memorably vivid story about the complex friendship between two African American boys whose lives are heading down very different paths. For fans of Jason Reynolds?s Ghost and Rebecca Stead?s Goodbye Stranger.
Deontae ?Simp? Wright has big plans for his future. Plans that involve basketball, his best friend, Rollie, and making enough money to get his mom and four younger brothers out of the Cove, their low-income housing project.
Long term, this means the NBA. Short term, it means being a dough boy?getting paid to play lookout and eventually moving up the rungs of the neighborhood drug operation with Rollie as his partner.
Roland ?Rollie? Matthews used to love playing basketball. He loved the rhythm of the game, how he came up with his best drumbeats after running up and down the court. But playing with the elite team comes with extra, illegal responsibilities, and Rollie isn’t sure he’s down for that life. The new talented-and-gifted program, where Rollie has a chance to audition for a real-life go-go band, seems like the perfect excuse to stop being a dough boy. But how can he abandon his best friend?
Paula Chase explores universal themes of friendship and budding romance, while also exploring complex issues that affect many young teens. Full of basketball, friendship, and daily life in a housing project, this universal story is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds?s Track series, Jewell Parker Rhodes?s?Ghost Boys, and Chris Crutcher.

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