Fast break

Description:

Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.

subjects: Race relations,  Basketball,  Foster home care,  Orphans,  JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Basketball,  Fiction,  Homeless persons,  JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / General,  JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption,  Juvenile fiction,  nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2015-11-22,  New York Times bestseller,  Children's fiction,  Foster home care, fiction,  Basketball, fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  Homeless persons, fiction,  Orphans, fiction