Away running / David Wright and Luc Bouchard.
In this novel for teens, Matt and Free meet in Paris, where they both play American football on a team in a poverty-stricken suburb where racial tension affects the team.
"Matt, a white quarterback from Montreal, Quebec, flies to France (without his parents' permission) to play football and escape family pressure. Freeman, a black football player from San Antonio, Texas, is in Paris on a school trip when he hears about a team playing American football in a rough, low-income suburb called Villeneuve-La-Grande. Matt and Free join the Diables Rouges and make friends with the other players, who come from many different ethnic groups. Racial tension erupts into riots in Villeneuve when some of their Muslim teammates get in trouble with the police, and Matt and Free have to decide whether to get involved and face the very real risk of arrest and violence."--From publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781459810464 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: 297 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Genre: | Young adult fiction/teen Canadian fiction, juvenile |
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Hazelton Public Library | TEEN Wri (Text) | 35154000107098 | Teen - Upstairs | Volume hold | Available | - |
Terrace Public Library | YA WRI (Text) | 35151001026780 | Young Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
McLeese Lake Branch | WRI (Text) | 33923005666742 | Young Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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