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    <body><![CDATA[<u>Slam!</u>                   Scholastic,1998, 273pp., $5.99<br/>Walter Dean Myers                          ISBN 0-59-048668-3<br/><br/>By looking at the cover picture from <u>Slam!</u> by Walter Dean Myers, I guessed that the protagonist was a basketball player who was in jail.  However, the story and the ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11996349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the book Slam! a young man that goes by the name of slam plays basketball for his high school. Slam is a good athlete but growing up in the mean streets of new york is hard.Most of his pears dont even make it out of high school, their either shot or end up going to jail. <br/>    I think this is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46970679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Slam by Walter Dean Myers is a great book with a good storyline and excellent  characterization. Like most of Myers' book, this book focuses on the life of Greg, an african-american high school basketball athlethe struggling in school and his bad neighborhood. Myers does a good job of zooming in on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76636582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slam!<br/>By: Walter Dean Myers<br/><br/>	The book slam kept me reading because it was about basketball, I really like basketball but I don’t play basketball.  It also kept me reading because it was about the life of a seventeen year old teen that plays basketball and is really good at it but, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76493844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have long been a fan of Walter Dean Myers, even before I had the pleasure of meeting both him and his son, Christopher Myers, at a book talk in Washington, DC.  Bringing authenticity to his narratives, Myers draws on his own past experiences growing up in Harlem in order to realistically portray t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74192177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gregory Harris goes to school and lives in the Bronx and his love for basketball is unimaginable. Although he is a really good basketball play and has a good chance of making it into a college to play college ball. Although he has a good shot to making it to play college ball, Gregory faces problems...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70058107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here I will give you a quick summary on this book. This novel was about a 17-year old teenage boy who loved to play basketball,but he could hardly play because of his academical performance. So he will need to hit the books harder so that he can eventually play,once there was improvement shown. Duri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71289104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 17-year-old protagonist of this novel is aware he’s good at basketball, but is going to go to an arts magnet school because of his art skills.  The problem:  he’s not doing so well at his academic studies.  Then there’s the basketball team, who haven’t won too many games.  Then there=s t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69912264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was real and thats what really made it good. It was about everyday life and problems that people run into and he handled the situation like alot of people would, it wasnt exaggerated like alot of other books. The Author Walter Dean Myers is a big reason for that, he writes what he knows not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80308917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slam! by Walter Dean Myers was actually a really interesting book. At first, from reading the blurb, it sounded sort of dull because the fact that it's about a average boy who's a superstar in basketball, facing problems in school. It sounded very realistic, however, it didn't come to my attention. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54185136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   This book is called Slam, and Walter Dean Myers is the author. There are many things that made me like ths book. Three are waht made me the most interested to like this book.First one was when Slam was getting bad grades on all his classes, and he had a skill of a player, but couldn't play becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46630942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>Slam!</u><br/>By: Walter Dean Myers <br/>266 pp. Scholastic Inc. $ 5.99<br/>ISBN # 0-590-48668-3 <br/><br/><u>Slam</u>, a book about a basketball player who tries to be in the NBA but with the miseries in his Slam’s life slows him down. Walter Dean Myers has out done himself this time. You would have ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58768167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of the book is Slam! By Walter Dean Myers. I believe the reason he wrote this book was to tell the life of someone who lives in the Ghetto the struggles they have to go thru and how it can be hard if they go to a school that has very few minorities. The authors intended audience is young a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38032377">more...</a>]]></body>
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