The Hoop and the Harm

von Jawara Pedican

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch, ab 8 bis 10 Jahre

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Kinder, Jugendliche und Bildung Romane, Erzählungen, Tatsachenberichte Familiengeschichten /Geschichten übers Zuhause
• ISBN: 9781459417151
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2023
• Größe: 213 x 140 mm
• Verlag: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
• Empf. Lesealter: ab 8 bis 10 Jahre