Game

Title:

Game

Personal Author EPSB:

Summary:

If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.

Year Published:

2008-2009

Physical Description:

218, 14 p. ; 19 cm.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Note:

Extras: Walter Dean Myer's dishes on writing "Game" ; Walter Dean Myer's all-time starting five ; Walter Dean Myer's favorite venues for basketball; Walter Dean Myer's favorite basketball team ; excerpt from "Dope Sick."

Grade Interest level:

7-10.

Awards:

A Junior Library Guild selection

Subject:

Basketball stories.

Teamwork (Sports) -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Czech Americans -- Fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction -- New York (State) -- New York -- Families -- Fiction.

High schools -- Fiction.