Slam

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

Main Author:	Hornby, Nick.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.
Subjects:	Hawk, Tony > Young adult fiction. Teenage fathers > Young adult fiction. Teenage parents > Young adult fiction. Babies > Young adult fiction. Skateboarding > Young adult fiction. England > Young adult fiction.

Summary:	At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
Physical Description:	309 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0399250484 9780399250484
Author Notes:	Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England on April 17, 1957. He graduated from Cambridge University where he studied English. His books High Fidelity; Fever Pitch, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 1992; About a Boy and An Education were all made into movies. His other books include Slam; A Long Way Down; How to Be Good; Songbook; Shakespeare Wrote for Money; and The Polysyllabic Spree. He has received numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award in 1999 and the Orange Word International Writers' London Award in 2003. In addition to his books, his works have appeared in Esquire, Elle, GQ, Time, and Cosmopolitan. In 2015 his title, Funny Girl made The New York Times Bestseller List. (Publisher Provided)