Booktalk: Keisha doesn't know how to swim, and her only motivation to learn is that she knows if she fell in the pool, the snotty white lifeguards wouldn't bother themselves to jump in and save her. Still... (read p. 60 from "One week later..." to p. 69 "he knew."). What Mr. Walt knows is that Keisha has real talent--big talent, the kind of talent that could make her an Olympic-caliber swimmer--if she devotes herself to it. Could this be the thing to get her out of the projects and into the rest of her life?