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1) Foul trouble
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.
3) Boost
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
Author
Publisher
Sleuth Philomel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
6) Swagger
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
7) 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.
8) Head games
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Basketball star Taylor, who doubts that she is attractive due to her height, reluctantly agrees to participate in a fashion show, an event complicated by her divided feelings about two boys and about her team's preparations for the playoffs.
9) Tall story
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philippines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
10) Game
Author
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
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