Copyright © 1997 by Carl Deuker
All rights reserved. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1997.
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Deuker, Carl.
Painting the black / by Carl Deuker.
p. cm.
Summary: When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Ryan Ward doesn’t realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle’s Crown Hill High.
[1. Self-perception—Fiction. 2. Baseball—Fiction.
3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D493No 1997
[Fic]—dc20 96-23763 CIP AC
ISBN 978-0-395-82848-9 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-544-54115-3 paperback
eISBN 978-0-547-77119-9
v2.1015