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Title: Slam

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Genre: sports/fiction

The book "Slam" is about a boy named Greg Harris or "slam" who lives in a ghetto in New York.

   In the book you find Out that Greg is a teenage highschool kid who plays basketball for his school. The conflict of the story is that he's a great basketball player but he doesn't have the grades or the attitude to play. Greg had just moved into a new school in a suburb of new York where at the old school Greg didn't have any trouble with grades or discipline.

   I think The theme of the story is life challenges. I think this because I can relate to Greg and his problem with grades. I plays basketball and during freshman year I couldnt play because of grades.

   I think this book has a lot of realistic parts to it. I think one of the most realistic parts of the book is just the interaction within his family. I personal/ know familys who live exactly as Gregs family does in the book.

   This book also has a lot of connection to my life. As I said befor I can relate to Gregs playing basketball and having trouble with grades  but another way I can relate is to the setting of the book because I used to live in cleveland OH  and the ghettos seem to have similarities to the book

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Transcendentaisml

The book i am reading is called Slam!. the book is about a boy name Greg Harris or "slam". something i like about the main character is that i can relate to his situation in the story. he is a high school basketball player and he was called to the office because his grades weren't good enough to play sports. i can relate to this because during my freshman year i missed out on the second half of basketball season because i was ineligible to play. one thing i like about the author ( Walter Dean Myers ) is that he leaves a suspenseful ending on some situations, fir example slam's friend ice is potentially a drug dealer and its a big deal to slam but you wont figure out if its true until later in the story this makes you wonder and it gives u a reason to keep reading the book