All American Boys is a book about two boys - one white, one black and the adventure they both go on. Rashad is the black boy and Quinn is the white and they both attend ROTC and play on the school’s basketball team. The story starts on a Friday night as the boys head out with their separate groups to go partying. Rashad stops to get chips before meeting his boys at the party and one incident later he’s beaten by a white cop and put into the hospital. Quinn sees the whole thing go down and knows the cop, Paul Gulluzo, who beats the boy. Rumors spread throughout the school about how Rashad was beaten and people begin to take sides, with Quinn stuck in the middle. Rashad befriends a nurse and the woman who runs the hospital gift shop while Quinn has to battle between standing up for what he knows is right and what his coach keeps telling him. Soon a protest is organized and Quinn chooses his side. Rashad’s. He wears a shirt that says: “I’m going to march” on the front and on the back it says: “Are you?” When people begin to take notice he refuses to let anyone stop him, he won’t even give his mother a say in the issue. When the day of the march comes, Rashad is finally released and he marches with the protesters, his supporters. At the most important part of the march the boys meet for the first time, though it feels they’ve known each other their whole lives.