These accessible illustrated comic-book style biographies feature characters from history as children themselves, as they recount the major events in their lives.
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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.