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The Moves Make the Man
Book Summary
Recounts the extraordinary friendship between Jerome Foxworthy, a top student, loving son, basketball star, and first Black to integrate his southern high school, and Bix, a white athlete facing problems in his life
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This book is about:
- Emotional problems,
- Friendship,
- African Americans,
- Fiction
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It's 1961, and Wilmington, N.C.'s white junior high school has just been integrated — by exactly one student, our narrator Jerome "the Jayfox" Foxworthy. Deeply observant, wise beyond his years, and a basketball prodigy, the Jayfox befriends a troubled classmate: Bix, a baseball star who needs to master basketball to confront his stepfather and gain access to his institutionalized mother. But the concept of "faking," though central to the game, is anathema to Bix's radical notion of... more
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