James Arawole: 2 books

Marcus White was used to stuffing down tacos, filling up stat sheets and fraternizing with classmates until his dad cursed him with diabetes, or the sugars as his grandmother likes to call it. Before Marcus had the sugars, he was a prep basketball standout with a promising collegiate career upon him;...

Marcus White, 17 year old prep basketball standout, loses his starting guard position, basketball scholarship, and girlfriend—all to the same guy. As if life isn't hard enough, he struggles with type-1 diabetes; the same disease that claimed his late father's life. He has until the end of summer to get his life back to where it once was, before the sugars.