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Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free. At the same time all of this is going on, slam is fighting to get a place on the school basketball team. Slam worked hard in every game throughout the season, and all his hard work finally payed off for him, because coach finally trusted him in a really tough game. A novel 2015 walter dean myerss last novel, delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as master juba, who lived in the nineteenth century. Seventeenyearold greg slam harris can do it all on the basketball court. The book slam by walter dean myers is about a high school boy named greg who has trouble succeeding both in school and out. He is the critically acclaimed new york times bestselling author an awardwinning. Slam by walter dean myers was, in my opinion, a brilliantly written book with great wording, connections to real life and myers really. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. The main character, greg slam harris, has to deal with. He is the critically acclaimed new york times bestselling author an awardwinning body of work which includes, somewhere in the darkness, slam.
Publication date 1996 topics basketball, afroamericans, high schools, schools, prejudices. The novel slam by walter dean meyers, takes place in a poor african american neighborhood in harlem, new york. Slam lives in harlem and attends the prestigious magnet school latimer in the south bronx. Walter dean myers did a good job in vividly describing the scenes in the book. By walter dean myers quotes a pros summary my critique you still dont get it do you. With an urban, teenage voice, walter dean myers earnestly reflects the hopes and desires shared by many budding hoop dreamers. Pdf monster book by walter dean myers free download 281. An exciting, eyecatching repackage of acclaimed author walter dean myers. Free download or read online monster pdf epub book. The story revolves around the efforts of seventeen yearold greg slam harris to play basketball, while maintaining his academics and his personal life. It takes place in innercity harlem in new york, and its. Ayumi hamasaki ayumi hamasaki power of music 2011 a limited edition 2012 dvdrip dvdiso. Walter dean myers is the 2012 20 national ambassador for young peoples literature.
Once again, myers produces a book that reinforces his standing as a preeminent ya. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. A harlem teenager learns how to apply the will he has to win at hoops to other parts of his life in this vivid, fluent story from myers toussaint louverture, p. Will he ever feel like he has some control over his life. Walter dean myers is a new york times bestselling and critically acclaimed author who has garnered much respect and admiration for his fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for young people. The story revolves around the efforts of seventeen yearold greg slam harris to play basketball, while maintaining his. An exciting, eyecatching repackage of acclaimed author walter dean myers bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of sunrise over falluja in hardcover. The first edition of the novel was published in april 21st 1999, and was written by walter dean myers. The following are 20 important events from the novel slam by walter dean myers the novel opens with the school principal of slams new school, mr. Slam the basketball book by walter dean myers duration.
A seventeenyearold basketball star must learn to work with others both on and off the court. Point signature scholastic book by walter dean myers. Top 10 nba slam dunk contest dunks of all time michael jordan, vince carter, dwight howard duration. This book was originally published in hardcover by scholastic press in 1996title page verso includes an interview with the author 17yearold greg slam harris tells of the year in which he. An exciting, eyecatching repackage of acclaimed author walter dean myers bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of sunrise over falluj.
Walter dean myers august 12, 1937 to july 1, 2014 is the winner of the first 2010 coretta scott king virginia hamilton. An exciting, eyecatching repackage of acclaimed author walter dean myers bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of sunrise over falluja in. The only difference between on the court and off it is that everybody is in the game off the. Get an answer for how would you introduce the book, slam. Walter dean myers, a prolific author of more than one hundred titles, wrote two newbery honor books, eleven coretta scott king award winners, three national book award finalists, and the. An exciting, eyecatching repackage of acclaimed author walter dean myers bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication. Hes seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones. An exciting, eyecatching repackage of acclaimed author walter dean myers bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of sunrise over. He is a superstar high school basketball player who fights. This new york times bestselling novel from acclaimed author walter dean myers tells the story of steve harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial presented as a screenplay of.
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