This thing of ours
(2025)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN NEW FICTION/JOSEPH,F
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
367 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781536233469, 1536233463 :, 1536233463, 9781536233469
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Ossie Brown's entire future is in jeopardy when atorn ACL ends his promising basketball career. Now Ossie - a Black teen who doesn't come from wealth and privilege - must navigate his new place in the social and academic ecosystems of his affluent, predominantly white school. When a Black teacher encourages him to join her highly regarded writing program, Ossie begins to find a new purpose . . . Everything changes when some students' viral 'anti-woke' video puts the teacher's job, the writing program, and even Ossie's friends' safety at risk--and Ossie must find his true voice"--Provided by publisher