- Fathers and sons in fiction, Friendship in fiction, Basketball in fiction, Family life
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
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Classical in form, contemporary, spare and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Lisa Yee
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic Paperbacks
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439622479
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