The Outside Shot
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?
- Author
- Walter Dean Myers
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Laurel Leaf
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780440967842
- Genres
- sports, fiction
- Release date
- 1986
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