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Feinstein, John

Backfield Boys

353 pp. | Farrar | August, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-30592-5 $17.99
(3) YA Childhood friends and star football players, Jason, who's Jewish, and Tom, African American, are freshmen at an elite Virginia boarding school. They're shocked by racial biases they encounter, and they set out to expose the ugly truths behind the school's practices. The protagonists are idealistic yet inured to the difficulties they face in this sports story with a thought-provoking look at how schools can propagate prejudice.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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