You Dare To Slam!

Book Required “Slam!” is a young adult novel by Walter Dean Myers. The story revolves around the efforts of seventeen year-old Greg “Slam” Harris to play basketball, while maintaining his academics and his personal life. Slam lives in Harlem and attends the prestigious magnet school Latimer in the South Bronx. The school is predominantly white. It has a failing basketball program. Slam is attending Latimer as part of a policy that enables schools to become more diverse. Over the course of several months, Slam helps lead the Latimer Panthers to victory, including one over his former school’s team. Slam’s lifelong friendship with Ice disintegrates as Ice turns to drug dealing to get ahead. Slam’s love life heats up when he begins seeing Mti