Marcus puts basketball first, but when he hears that the winner of the math contest will meet a basketball superstar, he needs to change priorities—fast!
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A young boy receives a stuffed rabbit made from velvet for Christmas. The boy loves the rabbit dearly. When the boy becomes sick, he turns to the rabbit for comfort. The Velveteen Rabbit hopes he can become real, but then he finds out that the boy’s toys have to be destroyed. The Velveteen Rabbit is saved just in time and becomes a real rabbit.
Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris thinks that basketball is his ticket out of Harlem, but first he must come to terms with many difficult realities of his life.
