Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55306
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
266
Points per Page
0.030075
Description
Seventeen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.