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Slam!

  • Walter Dean Myers

4.13

8 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Juvenile literature
  • African Americans
  • Basketball
  • Prejudices
  • High schools
  • Schools
  • Young adult fiction
  • Reading Level-Grade 7
  • Reading Level-Grade 9
  • Reading Level-Grade 8
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Children's fiction
  • Basketball, fiction
  • Schools, fiction
  • Basketball players
  • African American teenage boys
  • Teenagers
  • Attitudes
  • Realistic fiction
  • Coming of age
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About the author

  • Walter Dean Myers

    1937 - 2014

    3.95

    79 ratings · 317 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic Paperbacks

    May 1, 2008

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic Press

    1996

  • Edition cover

    UNABRIDGED edition

    Recorded Books

    June 2001

  • Edition cover

    Perfection Learning Prebound

    September 1997