The hoop and the harm, Jawara Pedican
Type
Label
The hoop and the harm, Jawara Pedican
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The hoop and the harm
Oclc number
1351845090
resource.readingGradeLevel
RL 4.9
Responsibility statement
Jawara Pedican
Summary
"Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. He's been pushed relentlessly by the obsessive mentorship of his older brother, which has been tolerated by his hard-working single mother. For years his brother has taken him to tournaments and pushed him to succeed on the outdoor courts of the west end. Burdened by expectations and self-doubt, Udoka tries to reignite his passion for the game. Now, he's been given a final opportunity at the city-wide tournament to rediscover his confidence and his sense of purpose--all of which he fears he has lost forever. With the clarity and poetic style of a seasoned writer, and drawing on his own time as an elite sports prospect, Jawara Pedican shows the trials and traumas of becoming fixated on a dream of sports stardom."--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Basketball stories
- Novels
- Families -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Sports fiction
- Basketball players -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Counseling -- Fiction
- Basketball stories
- College students -- Fiction
- Self-esteem -- Fiction
- Confidence -- Fiction
- West Indians -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Fiction
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject15
- Basketball stories
- Novels
- Families -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Sports fiction
- Basketball players -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Counseling -- Fiction
- Basketball stories
- College students -- Fiction
- Self-esteem -- Fiction
- Confidence -- Fiction
- West Indians -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Fiction
- Content2
- Author1
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