When Lonnie Jackson leaves Harlem for a basketball scholarship to a midwestern college, he know he must keep his head straight and his record clean. That's the only way he'll have a chance of making it to the pros someday.
But his street smarts haven't prepared him for the pressures of tough classes, high-stakes college ball, and the temptation to fix games for local gamblers. Everyone plays by a whole new set of rules -- including Sherry, who's determined to be a track star. Her independence attracts Lonnie, but their on-again, off-again relationship is driving him crazy.
Lonnie has one year to learn how to make it as a "college man." It's his outside shot at a bright future. Does he have what it takes?
ISBN: | 9780440967842 |
Publication date: | 1st December 1986 |
Author: | Walter Dean Myers |
Publisher: | Laurel Leaf an imprint of Random House Children's Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 192 pages |
Genres: |
Sporting Stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Basketball Children’s / Teenage general interest: City and town life Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction School Stories |