Smart, confident Dyamonde Daniel is happy in her new school, but a grumpy boy named Free is having a hard time making friends—until Dyamonde steps in to help.
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Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris thinks that basketball is his ticket out of Harlem, but first he must come to terms with many difficult realities of his life.