![]() Faced with history repeating itself (Sam's parents had him when they were teenagers), Sam does something that seems logical at the time he runs away to the seaside and throws his cell phone into the ocean, convinced that by running away, he can keep reality at arm's length. Alicia, now an ex, is pregnant, and Sam's about to become a father. And then Sam gets hit with a dose of reality that hurts even more than a face full of concrete. ![]() ![]() For the first time, Sam, a dedicated skateboarder, feels like his life is going as smoothly as the tricks he performs at the local skate park. And, most importantly, he's just met a gorgeous girl named Alicia. Sam is doing well at school, at least in his art classes. At the beginning of Slam, Nick Hornby's first young-adult novel, 16-year-old Sam Jones says that everything in his life seemed to have come together. ![]()
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