There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. This is a dynamic, compelling, adventurous novel about TJ, a smart, talented, multi-racial adopted teen who faces the subtle and not so subtle racial discriminations of his world. Crutcher’s gripping tale of small-town prejudice delivers a frank, powerful message about social issues and ills.