Slam!

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Summary: heart-stomping story of basketball and love
Review: these dayz it is quite tedious II find a book dat would keep a reader pursuaded II continue tha pages...
there are onli II novels dat i like.besides the novel tuck everlasting written by natalie babbit, another exception is the book slam by walter dean myers. it revolves around a fellow dat deals with realistic situations and realistic occurances that a reader may definitely relate II. not II mention how mister myers can realli write how a teenage fellow thinks like which can be unquestionably informative.

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Summary: Mostly Boring
Review: Slam

The main character was about a kid named Slam that lives in the ghetto and is switching to a more academically challenging school. His best friend Ice went to the old school. He hopes he could still be friends with Ice. He doesn't like most of his teachers at his new school and he doesn't like his basketball coach because how thinks Slam has an attitude problem. Slam is trying to make friends at his new school, survive in the ghetto, and stay off drugs. I sort of liked this book. On a scale of one to ten I would rate it a six. It wasn't very action packed and I like books that are. IN the beginning and the middle it wasn't very suspenseful. So you didn't want to keep reading it. At the end it was better because you wanted to see if him and his friends stayed off drugs and how they survived.

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Summary: Inner City Kids Will Relate To SLAM
Review: Slam is a teenage kid from the projects with "issues". His father is an unemployed alcoholic, His best friend is a drug dealer,and he is failing school. His passion is basketball. It is his escape from all his problems, and the coach will hardly let him play. Yet, he overcomes. Not by being some superhero, but by living day to day and thinking how to solve his problems.
... Inner-city kids will love it. The conflicts are real...and not to mention the basketball action has captured even my attention (and I don't "do" basketball). I am not thrilled with all the slang in the novel... ...

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Summary: My "Slam" Review
Review: As a teenager, being faced with tough, mind-boggling struggles is second nature. In this particular coming of age book, Slam by Walter Dean Myers, Slam, the main character, is constantly being bombarded by conflicts at home, on the basketball court, with friends and love, drugs, and at school. This book takes place in Harlem, the ghetto of New York City during the 1990's, and Slam's tough, nitty-gritty attitude, can also get him into predicaments where he shouldn't be. Most people can relate to this book. Either you've been a teenager in the past years, you are a teenager, or your looking forward to all of life's struggles ahead of you from the comfortable position of adolescence, this book will show you how to get through the hard times.
Personally, I enjoyed reading about the struggles and triumphs of Slam. Slam is a 17 year-old African American boy who just switched schools. He went from an inner-city school, to a more prestigious development where he is having a hard time finding his way. For starters, his grades aren't exactly where they should be. Constant meetings with the principal bug Slam, which in turn make Slam push his studies farther away. However, his main concern is basketball. Slam has got some extremely wonderful game; unfortunately, he knows he does, which doesn't "rub" the coach the right way. Slam, with his cocky, nonchalant first impression, the coach benches Slam for most of the season. Slam has a hard time dealing with the rejection of not getting playing time and has constant clashes with the coach and a few of his teammates. Furthermore, while basketball is going isn't going as well as Slam thought it would, so is Slam's friendship with a long time friend, or "homey". Ice, as Slam calls him, has started dealing drugs. Slam's long time heartthrob, Mitsha, persists on having Slam confront Ice about their accusations. Slam feels that the whole situation is extremely uncomfortable and runs away from that as well. However, Ice and Slam's competitive relationship only suffers more.
Also, Slam had a real problem with school, and keeping his grades up. Slam, who became a new student at a more academically challenging school, had a hard time adjusting to the school's standards and rigorous classes. As he finds himself falling farther and farther behind in his classes, constant meetings with the principal come into play and so does his eligibility for the basketball team. Furthermore, Slam and his math teacher became very hostile towards one another, which prompted another annoying meeting with the principal.
As you can see, many of the things Slam is dealing with are extremely relative in many teenager's lives. Trouble with and at school is a major problem with kids all over the world. Also, as we become older and grow up, many friendships come and go. It is so hard for teens to find people that they feel comfortable with, and when they do, it always seems like the people they care about most are torn away. Parties, drugs, sex, and alcohol are all things that are dealt with in Slam. Finally, sports are a main concern among high school students. Whether a reader feels like he or she isn't good enough, or too good for a certain team, every teen has trouble with teammates, coaches, and the actual games or matches.
When you are a teenager, it's all about the internal struggle. Many of us go through struggles every day, sometimes multiple times per day. Whatever the case, being a teenager isn't easy, and that is what the story Slam is trying to prove. This book is extremely easy to relate to, and offers positive advice, which can last a lifetime. If there was one quote from this story to represent it, the quote would be from Slam, at the very end of the book: "Maybe if I could get my game right, all my game, on and off the court, I would get over it." I think that is some very sound advice for all human beings, young and old.

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Summary: This book was a Slam Dunk
Review: Slam!
By: Walter Dean Myers
Reviewed by: Jordan Pinkard

Have you ever thought about living in a suburb in New York? Well that's how the main character in my book Greg or as people at school call him "Slam". He has to switch to a magnet school because they want more African Americans to go to them and he was the one who scored highest on the tests. He is really good at basketball and can dunk it that's how he got his nickname Slam.
I really enjoyed this book, it was probably my favorite book of the year. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys sports books that have a twist of the other person's life involved. I would also tell someone who considers some language profane or inappropriate. I recommend this book to that kind of people because it is based on sports put includes the main character's struggles in with it.

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Summary: Slam
Review: I think that Slam was a good book. I thought that Walter Dean Myers is a very good author. I like this book because I play basketball. What I don't like about this book is the end because it doesn't tell who win the game. It says that someone ran into Slam , but just because someone ran into Slam doesn't mean they won the game.

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Summary: A Great Book about learning life's lessons and playing ball!
Review: I have read the book Slam and I think it is an excellant book for young adults about learning life's lessons while living in the hood. Also if you get into basketball and you understand the game I would aslo recommend it. If you dont understand ball(and with this book you basically have to have a college level understanding of basketball) you shouldnt waste your time reading it. It gives a good perspective on life and is probably the most realistic and down to earth book ive ever read. everything in it is real and it doesnt try to hold back the truth it gives a real life perspective and gives you the facts. The book has some general talk about drugs and the talk about the main character's relationship with women is very explanatory and some of it could be graffic for young readers. It has mild language but other than that it is one of the best books i have read in a long time. if you buy this book i know you will enjoy it very much!

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Summary: Basketball Is Life
Review: At least it is for Greg, or as his friends know him, Slam. Having transferred from Carver High, a basketball powerhouse, to Latimer, a school for smarter students, he goes from bench warmer to team star. Walter Dean Myers does an extraordinary job of giving Slam the street-wise inner city personality that one would not normally find in a "smart" school like Latimer. Tempers flare and emotions fly as Slam and his coach argue over his place on the team. The book reaches it's climax when Slam and his team play Carver and his best friend Ice in the district championships. Do Slam and his team beat the odds and beat number one Carver? READ THE BOOK AND FIND OUT!

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Summary: SLAM is Slammin
Review: This is one of those books where you start reading it and before you know it it's 11 o'clock. The way the author explains life in the hood, it's like you are really there, experiencing what the characters are experiencing. The basketball sequences are so real and so well told that it sounds like your sitting right next to the announcer of a Laker game. The situations the characters get into are true to life. Many people have the same troubles they do. There is a bit of everything in this book. Love, hate, and what I crave for, sports. Why go sit in those uncomfortable chairs at a basketball game, when you can sit in your Lay-Z-Boy and read this action-packed book. I think you can tell whether I liked this book or not.

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Summary: slam
Review: The characters are Abdul,Mr.Harris,Mtisha,Mrs.Clark,Greg,and Carl.This book was made in November 1996.The title is Slam.
The part I liked is when Greg,Carl,and Mtisha,and Abdul play
basketball VS each other.