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Slam

Nick Hornby

20078 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2007
first published
  • 2007G.P. Putnam's Sons · 309 pages · ENGISBN 9780399250484
  • 2008Penguin Group USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781429555425
  • 2009Penguin Group UK · ENGISBN 9780141902708
  • 2007Penguin Audio · 8 pages · ENGISBN 9780143142836

Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very clear how having a baby so young interrupted her life. There's only one person Sam can turn to--his hero, skating legend Tony Hawk. Sam believes the answers to life's hurdles can be found in Hawk's autobiography.But even Tony Hawk isn't offering answers this time--or is he? Inexplicably, Sam finds himself whizzed into the future, for a quick glimpse of what will be . . . or what could be. In this wonderfully witty, poignant story about a teenage boy unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood, it's up to Sam to make the right decisions so the bad things that could happen, well, don't.

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Written forMiddle grade
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