Hoops

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Summary: Hoops
Review: Hoops is a good book. I thought it had some writing for older kids, though. Some parts were more for teens than preteens. There was some drinking and some black and white stuff and even some killing. It was good because it had a lot of basketball related parts. It had a lot of skills that I wish I could do. I like how at the end the coach who had had a bad reputation to gamble puts in the star player and at the end and they win. It shows a lot of character on the coach's part because he rose above his fear and overcame his gambling side with his basketball side. Hoops is about a kid named Lonny Jackson who is playing in a basketball tournament with his teammates and friends. He finds out that he is going to be coached by a guy named Cal who was formally a pro basketball player. Cal's nickname was "Spider" Jones. He was an excellent player. He was also a gambler. He gambled so much he would lose on purpose, or if they were winning by 5 with two seconds left he would let the guy around him and score and only win by three. It happens as if Cal "throws his game away." He enters a team in "The Tournament of Champions." As the championship game nears Cal starts the betting. The game is close and Lonny has not played because supposedly he has a hurt foot. As the clock ticks down to 5 minutes, Tyrone, the other gambler makes his bet. Cal sees this and puts in Lonny. Lonny lightes up the team and scores . He makes a steal . He is all over the court. With 10 seconds to go the score is tied. He takes the ball down the court and fakes out 1 guy. He runs into the lane and dishes to a teammate under the basket he shoots and, and ...

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Summary: My review
Review: Hoops is a great book. If you liked Slam by Walter Dean Myers you will also love Hoops. It is a very unpredictable book. It is very real. There is a lot of mature things so if you get squeamish about things like underage drinking don't read it.

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Summary: "Hoops" not quite a "Slam"
Review: Hoops is a ok book at times it is very slow but toward the end it is a great book. i would suggest that anyone who has read the book "Slam" by Walter Dean Myers to read this book."I dont think "Hoops" is as good but it is still worth the time to read it.

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Summary: Hoops
Review: Hoops is the story of Lonnie, a boy from New York City,in the 1990's. Being 18 and living on your own must be pretty tough, especially for a boy that has nothing. It's a big change but now he has something,a basketball team. The only thing is the coach is a "wino". So, Lonnie tries to get along, but in the beginning things don't work out.Eventually they grow a strange friendship.
Lonnie and the team enter a tournament called "The Tournament of Champions". This book was one of the best books I've ever read, (although Walter Dean Myers is my favorite author). To find out the out-come read Hoops by Walter Dean Myers.

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Summary: "HOOPS"
Review: Hoops Walter Dean Myers

When was the last time you read a great Walter Dean Myers book? He is a great author for teenaged readers. He writes about what teenagers go through in life. One example would be drugs. Another would be friends and the things they make you do. All of these things are talked about in this book. It's not directly said, but the author hints about these things. Other books that Walter Dean Myers has wrote like The Contender and Slam are other great books. If u read theses books you would notice that this is all compared to a teenage life.
The novel Hoops is a great book for kids that love basketball and kids that live in the ghetto. I think they would like it because it's realistic fiction and they will realize that they are not alone.
Almost everyone gets along with seventeen year-old Lonnie Jackson. He enjoys basketball and is the captain of his high school's basketball team. He is so good that if he keeps it up he could make it to the NBA. His coach Cal believes Lonnie could go all the way, but like any other kid, especially a kid from the ghetto, he struggles.
Someone is paying to keep Lonnie off the court. He has haters after him because they know he might go big and they are just jealous. Well, Lonnie is trying to find out the culprit, but he's running out of time.
This book was very good. I think I relate to the book and that's really what attached me to it. This book made me feel good. I felt that for the first time I had picked a book that I enjoyed. I think it's interesting that this author lived in the ghetto and has seen the things that have happened. I relate to the author because I think that all of his books, especially Hoops, relates to his life and the things he has been through. I don't think an author makes a book or a novel without reason. I think that there's always a reason for a book.

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Summary: A Basketball Dream
Review: Hoops, a novel written by Walter Dean Myers is a novel about a boy who expresses his love for he game of basketball. Lonnie Jackson a seventeen-year-old has a hard time communicating with his family. Lonnie struggles to buy time to go to the park to practice his basketball skills. Lonnie signs up for The Tournament for Champions where he faces on other teams from different cities. The last seconds of their championship game their coach, Cal, needs to make a quick decision to put Lonnie in the game. This book is an outstanding book that hooks the reader to it and has much suspense. I recommend this book to teenage readers.

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Summary: Love For The Game
Review: Hoops, a novel written by Walter Dean Myers is a novel about a boy who expresses his love for the game of basketball. Lonnie Jackson a seventeen-year-old boy has a hard life. Lonnie has outstanding basketball skills, which he practices all day. Lonnie tries out for a tournament called The Tournament of Champions. Lonnie meets his coach and is not pleased with what he sees. Lonnie's coach, Cal, explains to him that he was once in the NBA. Lonnie starts to show much respect for Cal as he begins to teach them to become champions. Lonnie's teammates help lead the team to victory by making it to the championship. The day before the championship Cal gets a call from some heavy bettors and tells him to lose so they could make good money. [...] I recommend this book to teen readers who are interested in sports. I could easily relate this book to everyday life because it was so realistic. The author did an incredible job in writing this book.

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Summary: Lessons to Learn
Review: Hopes, dreams, aspirations and life lessons. Thats what HOOPS is about. We all have some sort of dream or game plan for our future, as well does 17 years old Lonnie,(the main charecter of this book). But do we all know what it's like to live in a less then ideal situation? To deal with the pressures of drugs, alcohol,and the treat of violence lurking in the air? These are all things Lonnie deals with in life, all the while just wanting to play his game. The game of basketball. He dreams of one day making it out of the projects and playing pro ball, with his lady Mary Ann by his side. That is Lonnie's dream. He knows this won't be easy. He must face his many challenges with his team and his coach. The team knows it must win the Tournament of Champions, but none of them want it more then Lonnie.So he knows he needs to practise hard and give it his all.With Cal's help and persuasion Lonnie has a chance. Cal is the coach. The man that will help keep the team together,right? Well not exactly. Cal has many challenges of his own to face. He has a past that doesn't seem to stay away. Cal is a former pro-player. He has problems with gambling and alcohol that keep haunting him. He tries hard to keep himself together, to show the team the right way of doing things, especially Lonnie. He wants Lonnie to make it out. To live out the dream he lost to greed and temptation. There are a lot of lessons that can be learned from HOOPS. I enjoyed reading this book and found it to be an easy read. But most of all I learned to never give up on my dreams. No matter what gets in the way.

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Summary: One of the greatest books I ever read
Review: I am a big fan of Walter Dean Myers, but this is one of his best, everything about it was realistic. I recomend this to anyone of any age, anyone who ever grew up can relate to this book. It even may bring back memories of when you were in high school. Read it, you won't be dissapointed.

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Summary: it was ok
Review: i had to read it for summer reading it was a good book