Events

Marcus and Eddie are the stars of Long Island City High School's basketball team. Marcus is black and Eddie is white, but they got past all that "racial crap" and have been best friends for years. Then one cold night, something goes wrong. Told in their two voices, Black and White is the gripping story of two boys who make a bad mistake. It's also a heartbreaking look at the realities of the urban criminial justice system. Black and White is the featured book for ReadMOre, an initiative of the St. Louis Public Library. Teens can pick up free copies of Black and White at library branches before the event.  Paul Volponi is a writer, journalist and teacher. For six years he taught incarcerated teens on Rikers Island to read and write, and for six years taught teens in drug day-treatment centers, influencing many of his novels. Volponi's other books, including his newest, Rikers High, will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books before and at the event.