Books with title Black and White: Going Out

Marcus and Eddie are best friends who found the strength to break through the racial barrier. Marcus is black; Eddie is white. Stars of their school basketball team, they are true leaders who look past the stereotypes and come out on top. They are inseparable, watching each other's backs, both on and off the basketball court. But one night—and one wrong decision—will change their lives forever. Will their mistake cost them their friendship . . . and their future?An ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAn ALA Quick Pick “Top Ten”IRA Children’s Book Award (Young Adult)

Terry Clark grew up surrounded by his parent’s life’s work, the rescue and rehabilitation of cetaceans. Born just after first contact with the Galactic Union, he’s never known a time when aliens weren’t visiting Earth. At 10 years old, he had a normal life, until a visit from one of the aliens resulted in a ground-breaking discovery. The cetaceans have a developed and complex language…and it can be deciphered by the aliens’ translators. When Terry’s father begins using alien implant technology to test the boundaries of the cetaceans’ language and society, though, he goes too far, and the fledgling world government becomes involved. Without warning, the scientists are labeled as criminals, and the cetaceans are scheduled for termination. In order to save the cetaceans, the researchers have to flee off-world with them.In the Lupasha star system, Terry tries to begin a new life. While the world is ideal for the cetaceans, it’s difficult for their Human wardens. Even worse, the planet’s previous owners now want it back. As they don’t mind killing all the Humans in the process, Terry is trapped in a life or death struggle, which leads to a discovery that could change the course of humanity’s role in the galaxy.Welcome to the “Frontiers” series, the first young adult collection set in the wildly popular Four Horsemen Universe.

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 extra pocket cash and the gun they're using goes off. Now Marcus is going to jail and Eddie is going to college, even though Eddie is the one who fired the gun. Told in their two voices, Black and White is the gripping story of two good boys who make a bad mistake. It's also a heart-breaking look at the realities of the urban criminal justice system. Written with passion and uncanny authenticity, this is Paul Volponi's debut young adult novel.

Black and White doesn't fit neatly into a genre. Calling it a police procedural, mystery, political thriller, or historical fiction would all be appropriate. If you like the early works of Joseph Wambaugh, the HBO series The Wire, or the Bosch saga; you'll love Black and White. Although Black and White is a sequel to False Negatives, both novels stand alone. Black and White continues following a naive, conflicted college educated white officer who teams up with his academy classmate, an older, under-educated African-American. Largely written in the first person present tense, the author doesn’t tell the story. The prose immerses the reader in the action, whether fighting prisoners in the jail, or getting shot at while patrolling the mean streets of Shootin’ Newton Division.But the drama doesn’t stop with the cops on the beat. Again from the first person perspective, the reader experiences the political intrigue and chicanery, not only at the police station, but at city hall. While this story is fiction, the historical references are all true, making this novel as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.

In this unheralded civil rights allegory composed in the heat of the early 60s, two little dogs frolic and dream of adventures beyond their wildest imaginations, from jungles of the Congo with towering ebony elephants to the whitewashed, frigid arctic where the icy white polar bears roam. Dahlov Ipcar once again pairs her timeless illustrations with fresh original verse that celebrates the unity, wonder, and beauty of the living, breathing natural world around us.

Black and White doesn't fit neatly into a genre. Calling it a police procedural, mystery, political thriller, or historical fiction would all be appropriate. If you like the early works of Joseph Wambaugh, the HBO series The Wire, or the Bosch saga; you'll love Black and White. Although Black and White is a sequel to False Negatives, both novels stand alone. Black and White continues following a naive, conflicted college educated white officer who teams up with his academy classmate, an older, under-educated African-American. Largely written in the first person present tense, the author doesn’t tell the story. The prose immerses the reader in the action, whether fighting prisoners in the jail, or getting shot at while patrolling the mean streets of Shootin’ Newton Division.But the drama doesn’t stop with the cops on the beat. Again from the first person perspective, the reader experiences the political intrigue and chicanery, not only at the police station, but at city hall. While this story is fiction, the historical references are all true, making this novel as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.

Becoming an adult comes with making the difficult choices. Katie White is a student at Lightstaff Academy, a preparatory high school in Michigan whose students go on to attend Juilliard. Her overprotective parents control most everything in her life—including the boys she dates. But when her mother chooses Zack, things go from bad to worse. An abusive drunk, Zack eventually works his “magic” and gets Katie drunk at a party—and promptly leaves her. But that’s when Chris, a boy her parents would never approve of, steps in to save the day. Katie likes his bad boy look but, even more importantly, starts to fall for the man behind the look. The problem is the aforementioned parents, and the fact that being with Chris becomes problematic when their relationship—and her life—is in danger. The question is will she be brave enough to stick it out? Or will she cut ties and run? An intriguing, mysterious romance filled with the doubt and pain that accompanies the growth into adulthood is made ever more painful by the ultimate stakes involved. Katie’s sensual and surprising journey is both familiar and shocking, one that will undoubtedly change the way young adults view the world, their problems, and the consequences of the choices they face.