Shadowed

I picked up Shadowed from the library thinking it would be a nice escape. A YA book about boys playing basketball? Give me friendship and competition and growing up, etc. Well, no. Imagine my surprise when (NOT AT ALL MENTIONED IN THE BOOK DESCRIPTION) Shadowed is actually about death and grief!! It......more

I love a good YA basketball story. I went in blind and was heartbroken by the middle of it, but I loved this one a lot.......more

Nate has always been in the shadow of his talented soccer playing older sister; she sucks up all the limited family attention and resources. Nate is more interested in basketball, so he starts playing street hoops with Lucas, his neighbor. School bullies have targeted Lucas, who has a sister with sp......more

Wasn't my favorite Deuker book because it was more disjointed than this others. With competing topics to cover including a struggling family business that takes the parents energies away from their kids, one daughter who is the star being recruited by colleges which leaves the son feeling less than......more

This is Carl Deuker at his finest. Simply put, Mr. Deuker writes the best best-friend novels that exist. His understanding of teens (and human beings in general) is absolutely astounding. He has an ability to remind us just how easy and simultaneously impossible it is to be a teenager. Without preac......more