Floyd’s Baller (YA Historical Fiction)
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Floyd’s Baller (YA Historical Fiction)
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Author: Heather N. Wilde with Adarryl Hunter (Verified Freedmen)
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Description:
Floyd’s Baller is a young-adult historical-fiction novel written by Heather N. Wilde with Adarryl Hunter, a Verified Freedmen beneficiary and George Floyd’s lifelong friend. Told through an imagined narrative voice of George Floyd and grounded in Hunter’s lived experience, the story explores their friendship before the world knew Floyd’s name.
The book shifts attention away from the public symbol and toward the person, friend, and young man remembered by those who knew him. Floyd called Adarryl “Baller,” giving the book its title.
As Adarryl navigates friendship, ambition, temptation, responsibility, and difficult choices, the story examines how family, community, personal agency, and surrounding systems can shape young lives.
Rather than centering on George Floyd’s final moments, Floyd’s Baller focuses on the friendship and experiences that came before the headlines. It is a human story about coming of age, loyalty, masculinity, grief, survival, accountability, and the decisions people make under pressure.
Written for high-school readers and beyond, the book creates an opportunity for thoughtful, age-appropriate conversations about friendship, identity, empathy, personal responsibility, social conditions, and the environments that influence young people.
Floyd’s Baller may be especially valuable for students, families, educators, schools, libraries, book clubs, and community groups seeking a structured starting point for honest conversations without reducing a person’s life to a single public event.
Book Information:
Category: YA Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hezzie Mae
Publication Date: February 10, 2026
Pages: 212
ISBN: 979-8-9997402-3-6
Paperback Price: $17.00
Recommended Audience: High-school readers and beyond
Disclaimer:
The Freedmen Reparations Fund Trust does not endorse race-based terms, classifications, or identity framing that may appear in this book or its promotional materials. This Marketplace listing is provided for educational, historical, and economic-empowerment purposes only.
The inclusion of this book does not mean that every term, interpretation, narrative framework, or classification used by its authors or publisher represents an official policy or legal definition recognized by the Freedmen Reparations Fund Trust.
Adarryl Hunter’s identification as Verified Freedmen reflects his completion of the Freedmen Nation status-verification process. It does not extend Verified Freedmen status to any other author, publisher, individual, or person discussed in the book.
All classifications officially recognized by the Trust are based on documented and verified Freedmen status.
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