Slam!

About this book

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.

Subjects

african americans
african american teenage boys
attitudes
basketball
basketball, fiction
basketball players
children's fiction
coming of age
fiction
high schools
juvenile fiction
juvenile literature
prejudices
reading level-grade 10
reading level-grade 11
reading level-grade 12
reading level-grade 7
reading level-grade 8
reading level-grade 9
realistic fiction
schools
schools, fiction
teenagers
young adult fiction