The book starts out with a young boy in his senior year of high school. He was on the track team and wanted to go to college on a scholarship, but soon found that he had less than a year to live. When he found out he decided not to tell anyone about not taking treatments or the fact that he was dying.
After finding out about his disease, he decided to go out for football and go for the girl he has always wanted to be with but thought that she was unatainable.(Dallas Suzuki) He even decided to help Rudy McCoy, the town drunk. He became obssesed with Malcom X and sat out on a mission to get a street named after the black man in an all white town.
Soon after the football season ended he began to tell his family and friends that he was dying. He died in the arms of Dallas. At the end of the book, his younger brother gave a speech about his life and how meaningful it was to everyone. The street was finally named after Malcom X in Ben's favor.
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