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All American Boys, published in 2016 by Atheneum, is a young adult novel written by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. [1] The book tells the story of two teenage boys, Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins, as they handle racism and police brutality in their community. [ 2 ]
John Roberts Tunis (December 7, 1889 – February 4, 1975), "the 'inventor' of the modern sports story", [1]: 11 was an American writer and broadcaster. Known for his juvenile sports novels, Tunis also wrote short stories and non-fiction, including a weekly sports column for the New Yorker magazine.
In 1993, the LGBTQ organization Project 21 donated Annie on My Mind, along with Frank Mosca's All-American Boys, to 42 high schools in the Kansas City area. Because both books included homosexual themes, some parents objected that the books were made available to high school students. During the controversy, copies of the book were burned. [8]
All American Girl is a young adult novel written by Meg Cabot. It reached number one in The New York Times Bestseller List for children's books in 2002. [1] A sequel titled, Ready or Not was released in 2005. Meg Cabot also wrote a short story, "Another All-American Girl" included in Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out.
Some have said that the main character in the novel is based on Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice, a real-life North Carolina football star. [4] Then, after the movie was released, simply because the film had been relocated to Louisiana, there were rumors that Deford had based Gavin Grey on LSU's All-American running back, Billy Cannon. Deford has ...
The removal of the book prompted student protests. [25] In 2021, the Wentzville School Board in Missouri banned All Boys Aren't Blue, alongside three other books, from the district's high school libraries. Other books included in the ban were Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir, and Alison Bechdel’s ...
Billy Baker’s loved ones had just begun to pick up the pieces from his devastating death… and now, tragedy has struck All American once more. The CW drama has a habit of ending its seasons ...
All American is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor 1950 novel Professor Fodorski, it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology: the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering are applied to football strategies, and football strategies are used ...