Short stories about a variety of sports not only focus on young people’s participation but are used as a device to highlight a specific and important quality such as self-confidence. The tone of each story ranges from serious to humorous but each ends with a quote from a well-known figure and complemented by Smith’s artful photographs.
Rue, a Black teen from inner-city Houston, learns to use her ancestral magic to protect her sister and her East Row neighborhood and bring the truth about the origins of magic to the people of Ghizon.
