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Article: Slam!(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Greg Harris is known as Slam for his incredible skill on the basketball court. He and his best friend, Ice, have grown up together, sharing everything, including their dreams of playing for the NBA. When seventeen-year-old Slam goes to a new school - a magnet school where African Americans are in the minority - he faces a host of challenges and conflicts. The novel centers on the changes Slam's goes through during that one year. Teachers and counselors at Slam's, new school try to convince him that skill on the basketball court does not mean success in school or in life, and Slam ...