{"id":487,"date":"2012-09-02T00:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=487"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:10:17","slug":"year-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 109"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1996: <strong>Slam!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Walter Dean Myers<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1721277~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-488  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam1-624x424.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Slam!<\/em> is a classic coming-of-age story about a boy nicknamed \u201cSlam\u201d from Harlem who is great at sports, but not so great at school. When he finds out that he has to get his grades up or else risk not being able to play basketball, he challenges himself to do better, even though it means breaking away from his comfort zone and risking friendships. The book culminates in a basketball game between Slam\u2019s team and his former friend\u2019s team, which can be seen as Slam\u2019s triumph over his past.<\/p>\n<p>This book contains some intense basketball games that are so well depicted that even someone who knows nothing about basketball can follow the action! Winner of several accolades including the Coretta Scott King Award and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-489  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam2-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam2-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam2-624x549.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Slam2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1996: Slam! Author\/Editor: Walter Dean Myers Find it in Collins Library! Slam! is a classic coming-of-age story about a boy nicknamed \u201cSlam\u201d from Harlem who is great at sports, but not so great at school. When he finds out that he has to get his grades up or else risk not being able to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1988-1997"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}