The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship. Interest Level: YA ATOS Book Level: 5.1 AR Interest Level: UG AR Points: 6 AR Quiz: 151333EN Reading Counts Level: 6.3 Reading Counts Points: 11 Lexile Measure: 810 Lexile Code: HL (High-Low). Teaching Books: https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?go=1&adv=all&keywordType1=all&implicitWild=0&keywordText1=978006196087X.