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The Providence of Basketball

By: Rick Collins
Narrated by: Khai Dennis-Mangrum
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Tim decides to spend a week with his grandparents in the inner city of Providence, Rhode Island. His friends suggest this might not be a good decision, but he goes anyway with the idea he can spend his time playing basketball at the court in the Cranston Street Projects. He is befriended by Marcus, the best basketball player in the projects. But Marcus and his sister are in danger from Pele, the drug dealer on Cranston Street. Tim is thrust into danger when a rival drug dealer, Raja, tries to take Pele's turf. He survives a drive by murder, but it is clear that Raja cannot leave witnesses.

In the course of hiding out, Tim comes to realize that his preconceptions about being Black in the ghettos of the inner city are completely off-base. He begins to understand that he has his own racist ideas. Can Tim survive being hunted and change the way he thinks about Black people?

©2019 Rick Collins (P)2021 Rick Collins
Thrillers & Suspense Basketball Young Adult Fiction City

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