Slam!
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780545055741
Subjects: Fiction; Sports & Recreation - Basketball; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Basketball; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
First sentence: Basketball is my thing.
Description: 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.