The Resource Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
Resource Information
The item Slam!, Walter Dean Myers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Slam!, Walter Dean Myers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 266 pages, 18 unnumbered pages
- Note
-
- "This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 1996"--Title page verso
- Includes an interview with the author
- Isbn
- 9780545055741
- Label
- Slam!
- Title
- Slam!
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Dean Myers
- Subject
-
- African American teenage boys -- Fiction
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Basketball -- Fiction
- Basketball players
- Basketball players -- Fiction
- Basketball players -- Juvenile fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools
- High schools -- Fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage boys
- New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
- trueRealistic fiction
- Teenagers -- Attitudes
- Teenagers -- Attitudes -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Attitudes -- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1937-2014
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 750L
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- Interest level
- UG
- LC call number
- PZ7.M992
- LC item number
- Sl 2008
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 4.5
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Basketball players
- African American teenage boys
- High schools
- Teenagers
- Basketball players
- African American teenage boys
- High schools
- Teenagers
- Realistic fiction
- Coming of age
- Basketball
- African American teenage boys
- Basketball players
- High schools
- Teenagers
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State)
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
- Note
-
- "This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 1996"--Title page verso
- Includes an interview with the author
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1715817
- Dimensions
- 18 cm
- Extent
- 266 pages, 18 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9780545055741
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780545055741
- (OCoLC)226071066
- Label
- Slam!, Walter Dean Myers
- Note
-
- "This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 1996"--Title page verso
- Includes an interview with the author
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1715817
- Dimensions
- 18 cm
- Extent
- 266 pages, 18 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9780545055741
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780545055741
- (OCoLC)226071066
Subject
- African American teenage boys -- Fiction
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Basketball -- Fiction
- Basketball players
- Basketball players -- Fiction
- Basketball players -- Juvenile fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools
- High schools -- Fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage boys
- New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
- trueRealistic fiction
- Teenagers -- Attitudes
- Teenagers -- Attitudes -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Attitudes -- Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile works
Genre
Included in
- trueSouth Carolina Book Awards: Young Adult Books
- trueCoretta Scott King Award (Authors)
- trueYALSA Best Books for Young Adults: 1997
- trueYALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 1997
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