Hoops
by Walter Dean Myers

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• ISBN13: 9780440938842
• Condition: New
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Book Review: "HOOPS"
Summary: 5 Stars

When was the last time you read a great Walter Dean Myers book? He is a great author for teenaged readers. He writes about what teenagers go through in life. One example would be drugs. Another would be friends and the things they make you do. All of these things are talked about in this book. It's not directly said, but the author hints about these things. Other books that Walter Dean Myers has wrote like The Contender and Slam are other great books. If u read theses books you would notice that this is all compared to a teenage life.
The novel Hoops is a great book for kids that love basketball and kids that live in the ghetto. I think they would like it because it's realistic fiction and they will realize that they are not alone.
Almost everyone gets along with seventeen year-old Lonnie Jackson. He enjoys basketball and is the captain of his high school's basketball team. He is so good that if he keeps it up he could make it to the NBA. His coach Cal believes Lonnie could go all the way, but like any other kid, especially a kid from the ghetto, he struggles.
Someone is paying to keep Lonnie off the court. He has haters after him because they know he might go big and they are just jealous. Well, Lonnie is trying to find out the culprit, but he's running out of time.
This book was very good. I think I relate to the book and that's really what attached me to it. This book made me feel good. I felt that for the first time I had picked a book that I enjoyed. I think it's interesting that this author lived in the ghetto and has seen the things that have happened. I relate to the author because I think that all of his books, especially Hoops, relates to his life and the things he has been through. I don't think an author makes a book or a novel without reason. I think that there's always a reason for a book.

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