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| Title Statement | The hoop and the harm / Jawara Pedican. |
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| Author | Pedican, Jawara |
| Publication | Toronto, ON: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers,[2023]©2023 |
| Extent of Item | 271 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781459417151 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07046649 |
| Audience & Ratings | RL 4.9. 013-018. |
| Summary | "Author Jawara Pedican brings the vivid authenticity of lived experience in the basketball hotbed of West Indian Toronto to The Hoop and the Harm. Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. From very young, he's been pushed relentlessly by his family on a troubling pursuit for an athletic scholarship. He is 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."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Basketball--Juvenile fiction |
| College students--Juvenile fiction | |
| Confidence--Juvenile fiction | |
| Families--Juvenile fiction | |
| Self-esteem--Juvenile fiction | |
| West Indians--Juvenile fiction--Ontario--Toronto | |
| Self-confidence--Juvenile fiction | |
| Family life--Juvenile fiction | |
| By Location | Toronto (Ont.)--Juvenile fiction |
| By Genre | Young adult fiction |
| Sports fiction | |
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