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Book · Middle Grade

Hoops

a novel

by Walter Dean Myers

183 pages · 1981

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About the book

A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.

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