Slam!
An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He's seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he...
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An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He's seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones. Maybe he'll make it to the top. Or maybe he'll stumble along the way. Slam's grades aren't that hot. And when his teachers jam his troubles in his face, he blows up. Slam never doubted himself on the court until he found himself going one-on-one with his own future, and he didn't have the ball.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780590486682 (0590486683)
Publish date: November 1st 1998
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Middle Grade,
African American,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
High School
had to read it for school...
Highly unfair! The book ended way before I was done with the characters and I want to know what happens to them because I'm rooting for them so much.
Greg Harris, also known as Slam, is a talented basketball player. Greg 'Slam' has skills on the court that the other players wish they had and he knows this. But his skills in the education department are not so great.He lives in rough part of Bronx, New York.Slam's best friend is Ice, but when Ice ...