Slam!

Name: Slam!
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9781470393687

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Thomas Penny

Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/20/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Greg "Slam" Harris can play basketball, period. On the court, he's almost unstoppable. As he says, "I can hoop. Case closed." But off the court, it's a different story. Every day is a struggle to keep things together. Leaving his best friend Ice behind, Slam transfers to a top-notch academic school and is easily the best player on the basketball team. But his grades are slipping, and the coach doesn't appreciate Slam's attitude. On top of that, Slam suspects that Ice has started selling drugs, just as their opposing teams prepare for a showdown on the court. If Slam wants to hold everything together, he'll have to apply his passion for basketball to everything else in his life. With an urban, teenage voice, Walter Dean Myers earnestly reflects the hopes and desires shared by many budding hoop dreamers. Narrator Thomas Penny vividly captures both the internal and external challenges Slam faces while chasing his dream from the streets, to the classrooms, to the hardwood floors.

About Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cody on May 05, 2017

This book is about a boy named Greg a.k.a Slam. He wants to go to the NBA, but there are so much things that is stopping him like his grades, and how this mom and dad are divorced. What I like about this book is when he moved schools and it was a challenge for him to make new friends. I like this bo......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 21, 2013

Slam! By: Walter Dean Myers Review by- Andrew Johns Slam! By Walter Dean Myers takes you into the life of Gregory Harris other wise known as Slam. It shows the struggles he has to face in his neighborhood in Harlem, New York. The book will take you into his life and you will experience the life choices......more

Goodreads review by Jay G on March 17, 2018

Want to see more from me? Check out my youtube channel: [URL not allowed] Greg 'Slam' Harris is a 17 year old basketball star. He has dreams of making it big time. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the grades to make that happen. He also has a temper. So when his principal and coa......more

Goodreads review by Rashad on February 20, 2009

In the book Slam! a young man that goes by the name of slam plays basketball for his high school. Slam is a good athlete but growing up in the mean streets of new york is hard.Most of his pears dont even make it out of high school, their either shot or end up going to jail. I think this is a good b......more

Goodreads review by Noah on January 10, 2018

Personal Response- I liked the book a lot because it reminds me of myself. I don't have the best grades and I know my life isn't the most exciting all the time, but I think I know a thing or two about basketball. I have been playing it ever since I was a little kid. I also know that I am not the bes......more