All the right stuff - Myers, Walter Dean 1937-2014 (Amistad / HarperCollins, 2012)
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul works 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.