Slam!

Resource Information

The work Slam! represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Slam!

Statement of responsibility

Walter Dean Myers

Creator

• Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

Subject

• Realistic fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
• African American teenage boys -- Fiction
• Coming of age -- Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
• African American teenage boys
• African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
• High schools -- Fiction
• High schools
• Teenagers -- Attitudes
• Basketball -- Fiction
• Basketball players
• Basketball players -- Juvenile fiction
• Teenagers -- Attitudes -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Fiction
• Basketball players -- Fiction
• High schools -- Juvenile fiction
• Teenagers -- Attitudes -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works

Language

eng

Summary

17-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris tells of the year in which he transfers to a magnet school for the arts, a more academically challenging, mostly white school. After being the hot shot star of his Harlem high school team, he has to learn to fit in and be a team player at his new school. He may not be able to do anything about the rest of his life--his relationships with his family and friends, his grandmother's illness, his scholastic difficulties, or what goes on in his Harlem neighborhood--but when he gets onto the basketball court, "Slam" feels in control

Cataloging source

HCO

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.M992

LC item number

Sl 2008

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

juvenile