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1) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sequel to "Travel Team", thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Language
English
Description
Pedro Morales has always been content helping others look great. The epitome of a point guard, he plays the game to set up his teammates—Ned, in particular, the star forward on the receiving end of Pedro’s pinpoint passes. Pedro wants to make his father proud, and so he runs for class president. Yet doing so means going one-on-one against Ned, easily the most popular boy in school. And Pedro learns the hard way that being a good teammate...
4) Travel team
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
78 pages ; illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe Walker love more than playing sports and solving mysteries. And when those two worlds collide . . . well, it doesn't get any better than that. When the twins start a summer basketball league at their local park, they notice that the once rundown court is getting freshened up with each passing day. First new nets, then the benches have been completely restored. But who's behind it? Zach and Zoe are...
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
7) Jump
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
8) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
9) Too far
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
10) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
11) No slam dunk
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
13) The turnover
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"--
14) True legend
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
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