Slam / Nick Hornby.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.Description: 309 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0399250484
- 9780399250484
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Hornby, Nick | Available | 33111005341884 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriendÂbecause by the time she tells him sheÂs pregnant, theyÂve already called it quits. Sam does notwant to be a teenage dad.ThereÂs only one person Sam can turn toÂhis hero, skating legend Tony Hawk. Sam believes the answers to lifeÂs hurdles can be found in HawkÂs autobiography. But even Tony Hawk isnÂt offering answers this timeÂor is he? In this wonderfully witty, poignant story about a teenage boy unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood, itÂs up to Sam to make the right decisions so the bad things that couldhappen, well, donÂt.
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.