Winning the City

Theodore Weesner. Avon Books, $9 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71554-1

Set in Detroit in the recent past, this novel focuses on junior high student Dale Wheeler, whose position on the basketball team is revoked by an affluent new coach who wants his own two sons to have all the glory. ``Weesner nurses a wispy plot into an unexpectedly affecting novel,'' said PW. (Dec.)

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