Show them you're good : a portrait of boys in the City of Angels the year before college / Jeff Hobbs.

Traces the academic pursuits of four Los Angeles high school boys with very different backgrounds and resources who navigate challenges in class, race, expectations, cultural divides and luck to attend college.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hobbs, Jeff, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
High school seniors > California > Los Angeles > Case studies.
High school seniors > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > Case studies.
Teenage boys > Education > California > Los Angeles > Case studies.
College applications > California > Los Angeles > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
HISTORY > Social History.
College applications.
High school seniors.
Teenage boys > Education.
California > Los Angeles.
High school students > Case studies.
High school students.
Teenagers > Case studies.
College applications > Case studies.
Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:xiii, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Show them you are good : a portrait of boys in the City of Angels the year before college
Portrait of boys in the City of Angels the year before college
Format: Book

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