Summary. Hoops, By: Walter Dean Myers. This story is about a High school ball player named Lonnie. He is an amazing basketball player; and dreams of playing basketball in college someday, and of course in the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.) Lonnie lives in Harlem, NY, and is struggling through poverty, and other struggles. Summary. All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a citywide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie can make it to the NBA if he doesn't give in to pressure. Cal knows because he too once had the chance - but sold out. As the tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy. Hoops by Walter Dean Myers is a realistic fiction book about a year-old named Lonnie Jackson who is always playing basketball and struggles to live in the ghetto. Lonnie who has a ton of talent in basketball, dreams of playing in professional basketball.4/5.
HoopsBy Walter Dean MyersPoint Of ViewThe story was told by a seventeen year Lonnie Jackson who clings to a dream that he will become a professional basketball www.doorway.ru of the bookThe genre of the book is www.doorway.rug of the bookThe setting was usally him on the court playing basketball with www.doorway.ruer www.doorway.ru character traits are he is tough because he doesnt let anyone tell. He goes there to get better and to work out. He wants Lonnie to not make the same mistakes he did growing up as a basketball player. He is pressured from all of the gambling he does to sit Lonnie in the finals of the most important game of Lonnie's life. So, he decides to put Lonnie in so he can play and lead his team to the win. For questions 1 - 3, use the following exceprt from Walter Dean Myers, the author of Lockdown: I was born on a Thursday, the 12th of August, , in Martinsburg, West Virginia. My name at birth was Walter Milton Myers. For some strange reason I was given to a man named Herbert Dean who lived in Harlem.
In Hoops, Myers makes the game of basketball symbolize the game of life. Basketball was one of Myers’s passions; it was an escape from the frustrations of school, a time to bond with other kids. Hoops by Walter Dean Myers is a realistic fiction book about a year-old named Lonnie Jackson who is always playing basketball and struggles to live in the ghetto. Lonnie who has a ton of talent in basketball, dreams of playing in professional basketball. About the Author. – WALTER DEAN MYERS was one of the premier authors of children’s books. Random House Children’s Books is the publisher of many of his titles, including On a Clear Day, th Street: Short Stories, Hoops, The Outside Shot, and What They Found: Love on th Street.
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