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Also by Matt de la Pena:

Superman: Dawnbreaker, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Love, January 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Hunted, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Last Stop on Market Street, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Living, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
I Will Save You, November 2011
Paperback / e-Book
We Were Here, September 2010
Paperback / e-Book
Mexican Whiteboy, January 2010
Paperback / e-Book
Ball Don't Lie, March 2007
Paperback / e-Book

BALL DON'T LIE
By: Matt de la Pena

Delacorte Books for Young Readers
March 2007
On Sale: March 13, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0385734255
EAN: 9780385734257
Kindle: B000XU4TB8
Paperback / e-Book
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Young Adult

Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He’s a white boy living and playing in a world where he doesn’t seem to belong.

But Sticky can ball. And basketball might just be his ticket out . . . if he can only realize that he doesn’t have to be the person everyone else expects him to be.

Matt de la Peña's breakout urban masterpiece, Ball Don’t Lie takes place where the street and the court meet and where a boy can be anything if he puts his mind to it.

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