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

by Marc Skelton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052543402X
• ISBN13: 9780525434023
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"