One my favorite books is Slam by Walter Dean Myers. This book is about a inner city kid named Greg who is a all star on his high school basketball team. He is so talented at basketball that he gets the nickname "Slam" from being able to dunk the ball so well. Greg lives with his mother and little brother in a dangerous neighborhood in New York. He often interacts during the novel with his best friend Ice, or his girlfriend Kiesha. Slam and Ice used to be best best friends when they went to the same school but Greg was forced to transfer to a predominantly white school outside of his neighborhood. Throughout the book Greg fights with his mother, his girlfriend, Ice and Coaches at his new school and struggles to maintain good grades with this new curriculum.
Other than Walter Dean Myers, I think they're are many authors of the story. I am one of the authors as well as the rest of the mass that read this book. I also believe that the conditions that Myers lived in during his childhood helped create and author this novel. His mother died while giving birth to his little brother and his father was no where to be found. He also dropped out of high school and joined the military. So other authors could include the people who raised him, his neighborhood, his high school, and the military.
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