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Slam!

by Walter Dean Myers

Basketball talent meets a bigger challenge

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Basketball talent meets a bigger challenge

Greg “Slam” Harris is confident on the basketball court and imagines a future in the sport, but trouble with his grades and clashes with teachers complicate that ambition. The novel sets athletic promise beside the choices and uncertainties facing a seventeen-year-old as he considers what lies beyond the game. Its central tension is between the control Slam feels on the court and the less certain direction of his future. This edition also includes an introduction by Kwame Alexander and bonus content by Christopher Myers.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in stories about basketball and ambition.
  • Readers drawn to young adult fiction about school struggles and choices about the future.

Themes

Basketball and ambitionSchool strugglesGrowing up and future choices

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Book overview

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks! With a Introduction by Newbery Award winner Kwame Alexander and bonus content by Coretta Scott King Award winner Christopher Myers!

 

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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