About this title: Slam, a teenager living in Harlem, adapts to life in a new school as he dreams of becoming a professional basketball player. At his new school Slam begins to learn that if he truly plans to succeed in life, he must have the dedication to excel in all aspects of school--not just on the basketball court.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780590486682ISBN:0590486683
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK, VERY NICE COPY-SHIPS QUICKLY. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 266 p. Point Signature (Scholastic). Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK, VERY NICE COPY-SHIPS QUICKLY. CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER, ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS, NYPL BOOK FOR THE TEEN AGE. PAPERBACK-MYERS, SCHOLASTIC, 1998. "Myers uses contemporary urban black locutions to relay ... read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780590486682ISBN:0590486683
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 266 p. Point Signature (Scholastic). Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780590486682ISBN:0590486683
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 266 p. Point Signature (Scholastic). Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780590486682ISBN:0590486683
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 266 p. Point Signature (Scholastic). Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Slam by Walter Dean Myers is a great book with a good storyline and excellent characterization. Like most of Myers' book, this book focuses on the life of Greg, an african-american high school basketball athlethe struggling in school and his bad neighborhood. Myers does a good job of zooming in on Greg's life and really developing his personality and making connections to the world. Greg is a great basketball player; he's tall, strong, and ruthless. No one can stop him on the basketball court but in the classroom it's different story. Basketball is Greg's only way to a sucessful future because his grades are not good. The overall challenge for Greg is combining schoolwork with basketball. Myers develops the character of Greg by the way he speaks and his attitude towards others. Greg is almost 2-faced, sometimes he's reckless and cocky while other times he's fragile and vulnerable to attack. Only great writers can do this in 272 pages. From this 272pg book I have a pretty good idea of Greg's life and where he's headed."
"I have long been a fan of Walter Dean Myers, even before I had the pleasure of meeting both him and his son, Christopher Myers, at a book talk in Washington, DC. Bringing authenticity to his narratives, Myers draws on his own past experiences growing up in Harlem in order to realistically portray the struggles of his young inner-city characters.
The main character in this particular novel is a would-be basketball star who is struggling academically in a NYC magnet school; his friends call him Slam. But there is much more to Slam than a stereotype. Myers gives the reader a multi-dimensional view of this young man's psyche and adolescent fears. In addition, the reader gets to "watch" the most exciting basketball games of Slam's season, as Myers writes exciting play by play descriptions of both the action and the physical rivalries that exist on the court. Off the court, Slam navigates the difficulties he is facing in his relationships: both with the girl that he likes (maybe even loves), and with the friend that has always been like a brother to him (who may have become a drug dealer without telling him). Through it all, the assistant basketball coach tries to provide the guidance that Slam needs to succeed. The only question is, will Slam learn how to play the bigger game?"
"In this book slam is a good athlete but growing up in the mean streets of new york was hard. Most of his friends dont even make it out of high school. They either get shot or end up going to jail. This always used to happen. I liked it when slam and his best friend fight eachother, this was a crazy scene. I can connect to this to myself becasue I fought with my friend once. This can always happen to people and it showed it in the book.This book also looked great to me because it had a kid holding a basketball on the front cover and I like basketball. I would give this book five stars because I liked this book alot. I would reccomend this book to people who live in NY and people that like basketball. I thoght this book was amazing. This book was well writen by Walter Dean Myers."
"Here I will give you a quick summary on this book. This novel was about a 17-year old teenage boy who loved to play basketball,but he could hardly play because of his academical performance. So he will need to hit the books harder so that he can eventually play,once there was improvement shown. During this time he ecounters numerous misfortunes;his grandmom is really sick,his friend Ice is encouraging him to drop out of school and sell drugs on the corner,him and his girlfriend are going through ups&downs,and he is just giving up on himself in school.After a moment he gets himself together and then he is eligible for the sport.But he starts to have problems on the team,he and this guy named Nick are both vigurous at each other and they are aleays fighting,in result from them having different ways of thinking. The coaches are even not liking Greg's attitude.So mostly overall this was a well written and put together book,it contained nice and anticipated action;and that is why I rated this book a 5-star*."
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