4.0

An edgy YA novel about a boy who decides to leave the reservation school and attend the public high school in town. Those on the reservation now see him as an outsider, and the students at his new school see him as an outsider, and so he doesn't feel like he belongs anywhere. The novel culminates in the basketball game against his former school and best friend, Rowdy.

"'You can do it,' Coach said.
'I can do it.'
'You can do it.'
'I can do it.'
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together." (189)