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    <body><![CDATA[          Every on is watching Lonnie Jackson while him and his team practices for a city-wide basketball Tournament. Lonnie Jackson’s head coach, Cal knows Lonnie has what he needs to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about everything he needs to know. Cal knows because he once had the ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45293478">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance--but sold out.<br/><br/><br/><br/>As the Tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want Cal to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. As the last seconds of the game tick away Lonnie and Cal must make a decision. Are they eilling to blow the chance of a lifetime?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hoops is the best thing I've read by Walter Dean Myers yet.  <br/><br/>It has a great caste of characters, but the foremost, laconic, tough, and funny Lonnie loves basketball.  He gets put on a team that has a chance to get seen by some college recruiters. The reading is smooth, the prose poetic w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46355892">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So...technically I liked this book. It definitely kept my interest, and I couldn't put it down. I started reading it at night, and didn't go to sleep until I had finished the entire thing. It's about a boy who lives in Harlem, Lonnie. Lonnie loves to play basketball and in the spring of his senior y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77913260">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book Hoops is about a kid named Lonnie Jackson who it's in his point of view. While he goes to a tournament his coach Cal, teaches him many things both physically and his mental strength. Cal becomes Lonnie's best friend as he also teaches him lessons outside of basketball. Cal Jones was in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67202174">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel combines minority inner city African American culture with basketball to make a superior YA novel.  The protagonist starts out selfish, hostile, closed to others and arrogant.  An ex NBA player, one who made a mistake which brought drastic consequences, organizes a basketball team with th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69912062">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[4Q 3P S<br/><br/><p>Hoops is a story of Lonnie Jackson.  He is a hard nosed, ear to the street African-American male, in his senior year of high school.   As Lonnie moves closer and closer to finishing high school, he is faced with trying to think about how he is going to find his own way.  Lonnie ea...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45494230">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Walter Dean Myers and I love basketball, but I ended up finding this book a little boring.  It took me a long time to finish it because I never felt like going back to read it.  It's, of course, well written and tactfully includes the love story and the conflict and a couple characters you li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66941950">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance--but sold out.<br/><br/><br/><br/>As the Tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want Cal to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. As the last seconds of the game tick away Lonnie and Cal must make a decision. Are they eilling to blow the chance of a lifetime?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I choose Hoops because it is a good example for teens to see how hard someone has to work to get a better future and the hard work you have to go through. This is story of a guy that plays basketball out in the streets. He has a hard life at home his parents don’t like him and  the only way to f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70405805">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance--but sold out.<br/><br/><br/><br/>As the Tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want Cal to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. As the last seconds of the game tick away Lonnie and Cal must make a decision. Are they eilling to blow the chance of a lifetime?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basketball in Harlem in the 1980s and still upsetting to some in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/43012167.html">Council Bluffs, Iowa</a> in 2009<br/><br/>Lonnie Jackson remembers one of the things that his father said before he split was that “his days were piling up on him.” At seventeen Lonnie is starting to feel the same way. Then one eveni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53187190">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book from the beginning. The protaganist, Lonnie, talks about family problems which I can relate to at the moment. He loves to play basketball, but when he gets a new coach who he hates, he really wants to quit. With the support of his girlfriend and and his other friends, he ends up le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79822916">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book three stars because it was good but it got boring at times.This book was about a young adult(Lonnie Jackson)  growing up on the streets of new york and he had to find a way to make it out without getting caught up by the dangers of the street.But along the way he gets the chance of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46578262">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Managing time for athletes is real hard. Because athletes like to be active and participate in their favorite sport, they get distracted from their school work. A 17 year old Lonnie Jackson admits into the Nba. He mets someone who once was in the Nba and is taught by him, Cal. HE tells him all of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6720573">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Walter Dean Myers brings to Young Adult fiction what Bukowski brings to poetry:  sensitive treatments of hard, masculine subjects. The main character of <em>Hoops</em>, Lonnie, gets involved with a mentor, Cal, who is great at basketball but not so great at life. Besides being an alchoholic, Cal is involved ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5386589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The 17 year old Lonnie jackson believes he can be one of the greater basketball players and his one time NBA star coach Cal also believes in this same thing.  I thought this was a good book because it takes place in harlem and there is alot of action that happens in the book.  Lonnie and cal werent ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23597358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book, because it had to do with basketball. I enjoy reading books in general that have to do with basketball even if they are fictional books. This book was not great, but it was a fun, soft read, and i was able to relate. The main character reminded me a little of myself and a lot of ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53227897">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[in this book loonie is a basketball player. he is the best in his team and his coach knows it and knows he has a good chanceat the nba. but when some bettors realize they tell him to seat out for the team can lose the championship.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Inmouni says: Hoops is about a boy named Lonnie with game who just tries to get his shine on.  See, Lonnie and I are alike because we both have a dream but just can't make it a reality.  I would give this book 10 out of 10 stars.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A really good book about basketball.  I wouldn't recommend it, though.  It contained stuff that I didn't like.  It was a little gory, too.  A good theme, though, and I wouldn't say no if you wanted to read it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If theres one book that I'll remember for the rest of my life, its this one. The reason that I hold Hoops so dear to my heart is the content. Hoops is not fancy. It doesn't contain secrets. It doesn't glorify anyone. This book was true to the time and setting it took place in. A novel of strugle, su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38052154">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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