num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: Slam!
titlecomplete: Slam!
genres: Teen, African American, Basketball, Young Adult, High School, School, Sports, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 5086
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks