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Wrong Side of the Court

By: H.N. Khan
Narrated by: Raoul Bhaneja
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Publisher's summary

2023 The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence - Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book, Short-listed
2022 Toronto Book Award, Short-listed
2023 White Pine Award

Fifteen-year-old Fawad has big dreams about being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. A first-generation Pakistani coming-of-age story for fans of David Yoon and Ben Philippe.

Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his father, who died two years ago, his mother’s desire to arrange a marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan, and the tiny apartment in Regent Park he shares with his mom and sister. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf, who's coping with the shooting death of his older brother.

But Fawad has plans: like, asking out Ashley, even though she lives on the other, wealthier side of the tracks, and saving his friend Arif from being beaten into a pulp for being the school flirt, and making the school basketball team and dreaming of being the world’s first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. All he has to do now is convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team. And let him date girls from his school. Not to mention somehow get Omar, the neighborhood bully, to leave him alone . . .

©2022 H.N. Khan (P)2022 Penguin Teen

Critic reviews

2022, Toronto Book Award

2023, White Pine Award

". . . Wrong Side of the Court is finely crafted and well paced, it's hard to believe it's [Khan's] literary debut. . . . The writing is crisp and visual, and the story is so well fleshed out." —STARRED REVIEW, Quill & Quire

"An interesting and heartfelt portrait of a teen yearning to beat the odds." —Kirkus Reviews

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