Black Boy White School
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
Racism
White Privilege
Book Details
Author: Brian F. Walker
Publication Year: 2012
Pages: 256 pages
*BIPOC Author Designation
Book Synopsis
In a hard-hitting novel about fitting in—or not—Anthony “Ant” Jones gets transported from his East Cleveland hood to an almost all-white prep school and has to figure out where he belongs...before he loses himself entirely.
Anthony has never been outside his rough neighborhood when he receives a scholarship to Belton Academy, an elite prep school in Maine. But at Belton things are far from perfect. Everyone calls him “Tony,” assumes he’s from Brooklyn, expects him to play basketball, and yet acts shocked when he fights back. As Anthony tries to adapt to a world that will never fully accept him, he’s in for a rude awakening: Home is becoming a place where he no longer belongs.