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Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School

✍ Scribed by Skelton, Marc

Book ID
110467186
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385542654

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✦ Synopsis

Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships _ -- and_ learn Russian history and graduate and go on to college.
In 2006, the Fannie Lou Hamer Panthers basketball team was 0-18. Since 2007, the year Marc Skelton, a New Hampshire native, took over as head coach, the Panthers' record has been 228-68, and they've won three Public School Athletic League championships and one statewide championship. This tiny 400-student school has become a powerhouse on the basketball court, as well as a public education success story and a symbol of the regeneration of its once blighted neighborhood.
In Pounding the Rock , Marc Skelton tells the thrilling story of the 2016-2017 season, as the Panthers seek to redeem an early exit from the playoffs the year before. But this is far more than a basketball story. It's a profile of a school...

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