Everything you need to understand or teach Promise Boys by Nick Brooks.
In the young adult novel Promise Boys by Nick Brooks, Jabari “J.B.” Williamson, Ramón Zambrano, and Trey Jackson are all suspects in the murder of Urban Promise Prep School principal Kenneth Moore. Since the boys fear one of them will go to jail for a murder he did not commit, they band together to find out who really killed Moore. Themes in the novel include the power of gossip and assumptions, false evidence, and the reality of racism.