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Brooks, Bruce THE MOVES MAKE THE MAN Santa Barbara : ABC-Clio, 1988. IL YA RL 7.4 . ISBN 0060206985 Jerome Foxworthy doesn't get fazed by much. A fatherless junior-high boy, he's the first African-American to be bused into an all-white school. He aces most courses and is quick on the basketball court. One of only two boys in a home economics cooking class, Jerome has some work cut out for him in trying to settle into a friendship with Bix Rivers, the other guy in the cooking class. Bix is bothered by something that makes him spooky to be around but Jerome is intrigued. The guy is a good athlete, they seem to get along fine but JayFox has to write Bix's story -- its' got him so bugged. SUBJECTS:      African Americans -- Fiction                         Emotional problems -- Fiction                         Friendship -- Fiction                         North Carolina -- Fiction ©  Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.