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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.

Title:

Slam! / Walter Dean Myers.

Publisher:

Scholastic Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

266, [18] pages ; 18 cm

Subject:

Basketball players--Juvenile fiction.
African American teenage boys--Juvenile fiction.
High schools--Juvenile fiction.
Teenagers--Attitudes--Juvenile fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
Basketball players--Fiction.
African American teenage boys--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Teenagers--Attitudes--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Realistic fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Basketball--Fiction.
African American teenage boys.
Basketball players.
High schools.
Teenagers--Attitudes.
New York (State)--Harlem.--Harlem.
Prejudices--Fiction.
School stories.
African Americans--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Basketball--Fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Notes:

"This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 1996"--Title page verso. Includes an interview with the author.

Summary:

17-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris tells of the year in which he transfers to a magnet school for the arts, a more academically challenging, mostly white school. After being the hot shot star of his Harlem high school team, he has to learn to fit in and be a team player at his new school. He may not be able to do anything about the rest of his life--his relationships with his family and friends, his grandmother's illness, his scholastic difficulties, or what goes on in his Harlem neighborhood--but when he gets onto the basketball court, "Slam" feels in control.

ISBN:

9780329677312
0329677314
0613121112
9780613121118
0545055741
9780545055741

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226071066

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)