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Title: Hoops by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0-440-93884-8 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (44 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A GOOD BOOK
Comment: I think this is a really good book because it kept me intrested in it. And it was one of the only books that I really like to read. I really liked this book because it was fun exsiting and it was about basketball, witch is one of my favirote sports.There was also alot of action in it. This is why i rated it a 5!
Rating: 4
Summary: Hoops Book Review
Comment: After reading Slam, another book written by Walter Dean Myers, I was inspired to read Hoops. I, personally cannot relate to Lonnie Jackson as many other readers may be able to. But being a male athlete is pretty much the only way I am able to relate to this book. On that note, I happened to enjoy this book very much.
Hoops takes place during the summer, instead of the regular basketball season, giving Lonnie one less thing to worry about. I think Myers did a great job including all of Loonie's friends that he plays basketball with as well as his love life. One thing that Myers could have wrote more about is Lonnie's relationship with his mother.
The ending of the book did disappoint me a little bit though. If I was able to change one thing in the book, it would be the ending. But the conclusion of the book only made Lonnie stronger, which is a job well done by Myers.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hoops
Comment: The story of an untapped talent in the ghetto of the Harlem. Hoops is the story of Lonnie Jackson a basketball player with unlimited potential but lack of guidance and motivation. The strengths of the book are the easy relatable human themes. The book had no visable weaknesses it was a "page-turn". The book was short but Mr.Myers gave the reader plenty of in-sight into the depths of the charachters. I beleive that all people would enjoy this book, although athletic males would relate more easily. I enjoyed the story very much so, me and Lonnie are not that far apart in charachter. We both have the same intrests and mind-set. He, too is a young African American male with no real male role-model in his life and the frustrations of the world are beginning to take there toll on Lonnie...enter Cal an ex- NBA star washed up due to gambling problems. The basic plot of the story is Lonnie, the main charachter off the story, has all the talent in the world, but has no idea how to use that to help himself. Cal is the mentor who is going to introduce Lonnie to the cold harsh world, and believe in the Harlem Ghetto it's the coldest and harshest. Throught the story Cal teaches Lonnnie and the rest of the team through basketball that life has no limits if you know how to make it work for you. In the tournament the team is the best and using the life lessons (not the basketball) lessons they overcome the adversaries to win the tournament and beat the "world" at its own game. Cal dies and Lonnie finally is ready to be an adult in the world.
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Title: Slam! by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0590486683 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Outside Shot by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0440967848 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Monster by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0064407314 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Scorpions (rack) by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0064470660 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 25 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks ISBN: 0064405648 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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