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"Deanie Gauthier is a troubled teenager, who smokes dope and shaves her head. Her family life is troubled, to say the least, as she lives with her irresponsible mother and her mother's abusive boyfriend. Most people at school thinks she's really weird and maybe even scary. But the one thing they all admire her for is her ability to play basketball.
It's as captain of her high school's women's basketball team that Deanie gets to know Sam Styles, a straight-shooter who doesn't like drugs and goes to church with his dad, Reuben (who appears in other books by this author).
Over time, Deanie and Sam become friends and lovers. In part this is the story of their relationship. Even more than that it's the story of what happens when two essentially good-hearted, strong, and strong-willed people come face to face with a malicious drugdealer and the mother's boyfriend. "
Ann Gaines, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kind of sport:
- basketball
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Sports Story?
Yes
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- parental abuse
Wild kid(s)?
- druggie culture (& crime)
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- wild
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of hetero sex
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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