Hoops
- ISBN-10
- 0307976114
- ISBN-13
- 9780307976116
- Series
- Hoops
- Category
- Young Adult Fiction
- Pages
- 183
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Author
- Walter Dean Myers
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson sees the city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions as a possible escape from Harlem but fears the pressures that have sidelined his coach, Cal.
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