Paul Volponi

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
• 

Marcus and Eddie are best friends. They're also stars on the basketball court, where they're known as Black and White. Race has never been an issue: Marcus is black, Eddie is white, but it doesn't matter. Until they start to pull stickups for extr...

• Aug-2005
• / General Fiction
• 

Martin Stokes, known as Forty, is a seventeen-year-old awaiting trial on Rikers Island for a minor offense. After his case gets postponed in New York City's dizzying system of overworked legal-aid lawyers and short-tempered judges, Forty embarks on a...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
• 

Cousins Clay and Addison were like brothers, growing up together in the projects, until they were ripped apart by a family argument. when they are reunited in a drug-treatment program, they try to work out their issues like a family. but one night, o...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
• 

Best friends Mackey and J.R. have waited their whole lives to win the basketball tournament at Rucker Park, where their favorite pro ballers squared off against street legends. But the day of their big game, J.R. is fatally stabbed--and it's Mackey's...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
• 

Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans with his dad, a musician, for a few months when Hurricane Katrina hits. Father and son haven't exactly been getting along. Miles is obsessed with foo...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
• 

When Huck Porter's dad suddenly dies, it feels like nothing will ever make sense again. Huck's "best friend" thinks that Huck should just get over it, the girl he likes won't give him the time of day, and his mom now works all hours at a roadside din...

• Feb-2009
• / General Fiction
• 

Noah and his friends go to a predominantly white neighborhood with a plan: steal a car, sell it to a chop shop, and make some fast cash. But that never happens. Instead, Noah, a teen father, is the victim of a vicious beating that leaves him with a f...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
• 

A runaway boy with nothing finds everything he needs, including a faimly, in the most unlikely of places--at a racetrack....

• Feb-2010
• / General Fiction
• 

Martin was sitting on the front stoop of his apartment building minding his own business when he was arrested for something he didnat even mean to do. Five months later, heas still locked up on Rikers Island, in a New York City jail. Just when it see...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
• 

Adonis is a jock. He's on the football team and he's dating one of the prettiest girls in school. Alan is the new kid. He wears lipstick and joins the Fashion Club. Soon enough the football team is out to get him. Adonis is glad to go along with his ...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
• 

Four players with one thing in common: the will to win Malcolm wants to get to the NBA ASAP. Roko wants to be the pride of his native Croatia. Crispin wants the girl of his dreams. M.J. just wants a chance. March Madness is in full swing, and t...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
• 

My name is Julio Ramirez Jr. and baseball is my whole life. Since he was ten, Julio has lived in the shadow of his famous father. Not just because Julio Senior is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins, but because he fled Cuba to play professional bas...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
• 

Travis Gardner lives to play quarterback.He's a standout QB by middle school, and he's prepared to put everything he has into the game. Then Gainesville University's head coach makes Travis a promise: Travis will have a place on the team, and a schol...

• Mar-2022
• / General Fiction
•