About this title: Seventeen-year-old basketball star Lonnie Jackson is wary of committing himself to anyone --especially adults--so he doesn't trust his new basketball coach former pro-ball player Cal Jones. But basketball is his life--could it be his way out of Harlem, despite his coach?
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Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Good read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Very good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Very good read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Good read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Good read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Very good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Very good read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
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"It was interesting at first to get into the culture of the book. I really wanted to understand this culture and see what it would be like to live in it. But there was an instance of immorality that was treated pretty lightly.The fact that it was recommended to my middle schooler didn't sit well with me."
"in this book loonie is a basketball player. he is the best in his team and his coach knows it and knows he has a good chanceat the nba. but when some bettors realize they tell him to seat out for the team can lose the championship."
"I choose Hoops because it is a good example for teens to see how hard someone has to work to get a better future and the hard work you have to go through. This is story of a guy that plays basketball out in the streets. He has a hard life at home his parents don't like him and the only way to feel happy is playing ball he ends up getting a chance to play different teams to earns a scholarship to go college and have a good education but his decsions make it hard.
The central conflict is man vs. himself we see this by the way he struggles through out the book of making good decisions for his future. The message of the book Hoop is that everybody goes throw stuff times in life but there's a lot of ways to solve then and making then better. The symbols that the author uses are that he always talking about basketball and I think that symbolizes the life of the character.
The writing style of the author is that it has a lot of emotions and we could see this by the way he talks about the team hard work and the way they work together to help each others. I do recommend this book especially to teenager that go through hard time in life when ever your parents don't like you and there's always a way to solve it and also if you are good at a sport you should go for Hoops is a good example of all theses things."
"This novel combines minority inner city African American culture with basketball to make a superior YA novel. The protagonist starts out selfish, hostile, closed to others and arrogant. An ex NBA player, one who made a mistake which brought drastic consequences, organizes a basketball team with the protagonist and his friends. The protagonist and other members on the team struggle with issues of racism, identity within black culture, stealing, gambling, cheating, dealing with racketeers, violence, sex, etc. Through the struggles and the relationship with the coach, this young man matures and opens himself up to others--friends, girlfriend--and begins to take responsibility for his actions. The challenge of this novel comes with the black culture--mild language, casual attitude towards stealing, casual attitude toward extramarital sex, and other cultural attitudes understandable in this environment, but a bit rough for the immature reader. The novel is well written, with basketball action sequences and adventure that will engage the most unwilling reader. The voice is very strong (the protagonist tells the story), and very unlikable at first. Myers' skill is that the novel allows the reader to see through this narrator and recognize that the reasons for his arrogance and emotional inaccessibility, even before he grows, matures and changes, make him sympathetic."
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