Out of the Pocket
Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he?s different from his teammates. They?re like brothers, but they don?t know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he?s...
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Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he?s different from his teammates. They?re like brothers, but they don?t know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he?s outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates? trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he?d hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sportswriting.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525479963 (0525479961)
ASIN: 0525479961
Publish date: 2008-09-18
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Romance,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Glbt,
Queer,
M M Romance,
Gay,
Fiction
Out of the Pocket has been on my TBR for quite some time, so when I got a chance to get it from the library of course I checked it out. And...I don't know. *shrugs shoulders* It certainly wasn't bad or unenjoyable. I guess I was just expecting a little more. Let's start with the positives first! S...
For me and my short attention span this book would have been at 5 if it had been tighter. There were too may pages that had me skimming.
Out of a Pocket is a coming out story about of a 17-year-old Bobby Framingham, a senior quarterback. Bobby just starts to deal with having dreams about men, and realizing that he is gay. He decides to tell his best friend about it. But it escalates to something that he has not expected, because his ...
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