Free Throw

by Michael Chin

Mike Weaver was a teenage boy with a bad case of unrequited love for cheerleader Alicia Harris and dreams of playing for his school's varsity basketball team. Suddenly, though, Mike's world is shaken up by the arrival of Alicia's cousin, Pepper, with whom he learns what love is really all about.

214 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

Born and raised in Utica, New York and currently living in Nevada with his wife and son, Michael Chin is an alum of the MFA program in creative writing at Oregon State University and the MA program in writing at Johns Hopkins University. He has previously published or has work forthcoming in over 200 different publications, including The Normal School, Passages North, Barrelhouse, Hobart, Front Porch Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, and Prairie Schooner online. He has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize (2016, 2017, 2018), Best New Poets (2016), and Best of the Net honors (2011, 2016, 2017), and had work on the Longlist for Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions (2017). He is an Assistant Professor of English at UNLV.

Reviews

[CJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a character in this book based on ME. That's not the only reason I like it--the characters and dialogue are pretty realistic, and it's in genearal a good, solid, well-written YA book--but it certainly does add to the allure.