cover image Slam!

Slam!

Walter Dean Myers. Scholastic, $5.99 (266pp) ISBN 978-0-590-48668-2

""Myers uses contemporary urban black locutions to relay his view of the mean streets of Harlem and to describe some heart-thumping hoop action in a novel that, like most good sports stories, is about more than just sports,"" said PW. Ages 12-up. (Nov.)