Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
Type
Creator
1
Subject
13
- High schools -- Fiction
- Realistic fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Basketball players -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Basketball players -- Fiction
- Basketball -- Fiction
- Teenagers + Attitudes -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- African American teenage boys -- Fiction
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenagers + Attitudes -- Fiction
Content
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Label
Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
Slam!
Oclc number
226071066
Responsibility statement
Walter Dean Myers
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
Target audience
juvenile
Incoming Resources
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