Slam!
by Myers, Walter Dean
Coretta Scott King Award/HonorsALA Best Book for Young AdultsSchoolBlack PeopleIRA Teachers Choices/ILA Teachers ChoiceNY Publ. Library Best Books for the Teen AgeChildren's Literature ChoicePrejudice & Discrimination
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AR Book Level
4.5
AR Points
8
Word Count
55,306
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
15087 EN
About this book
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.