The outside shot / Walter Dean Myers.

9780440967842 (pbk.)
0440967848 (pbk.)

New York : Dell Pub., 1987, c1984.

English

185 p. ; 18 cm.

PZ7.M992 Ou 1987

813.54

Recruited by a small midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in college sports. 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?

Sequel to: Hoops.
"Based on an original screen treatment by John Ballard"--Verso.

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