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Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College

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Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College

Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. Combining complex social issues with the compelling experience of the individual, Jeff Hobbs takes us deep inside these boys’ worlds. The foursome includes Carlos, the younger son of undocumented delivery workers, who aims to follow in his older brother’s footsteps and attend an Ivy League college; Tio harbors serious ambitions to become an engineer, despite a father who doesn’t believe in him; Jon struggles to put distance between himself and his mother, who is suffocating him with her own expectations; and Owen, raised in a wealthy family, can’t get serious about academics but knows he must.

Show Them You're Good: Four Boys and the Quest for College
by Jeff Hobbs