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Product Identifiers
PublisherTurtleback
ISBN-100613453409
ISBN-139780613453400
eBay Product ID (ePID)2625038
Product Key Features
TopicGeneral
Book TitleFinding Forrester
Publication Year2000
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung Adult Fiction, Fiction
AuthorJames W. Ellison
FormatLibrary Binding
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Grade FromSeventh Grade
Compiled byBookSource Staff
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
Edition DescriptionPrebound edition
SynopsisSet in Manhattan and the South Bronx, William Forrester (Connery), a Pulitzer Prize -- winning novelist who has not been heard from for four decades, accidentally discovers that Jamal, a brash 16-year-old African-American who plays basketball on the court below his window, keeps a secret journal that shows a real gift for writing. Forrester takes Jamal on as a protege, and the friendship challenges and changes the two of them forever.Written by an accomplished novelist, based on an award-winning screenplay, this story yearns to be a novel as well as a movie. The inspiration came from an interview conducted by the screenwriter, former radio news director Mike Rich:
