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2) Travel team
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
7) I got next
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins the competition ready to try his best"--
8) Dough boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.
9) Shot clock
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
After the death of his friend, Tony must work to make the basketball team, but when gets the chance to join the squad as statistician, he must grapple with honoring the memory of his basketball-loving friend while also trying to fit in on the team.Â
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Nikki, thirteen, dreams of being a great basketball player but struggles on her new, elite team while also juggling school stress, her non-traditional family, and revelations about her biological father.
12) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
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"--
13) Detroit
Author
Series
Hoop city volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Isaiah is a hot-shot freshman, talented and hardworking enough to be on the varsity basketball team at one of the top private high schools in Detroit. The problem is, his family is breaking apart and he is losing street-cred with his new suburban address. Will Isaiah be able to rise above the taunts -- real or imagined -- from teammates and opponents? Will he be able to overcome the destruction of his family?
15) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
From the age of nine years, Michael dreams of playing basketball for the United States in the Olympics, and with hard work and his mother's encouragement, he realizes his dream.
17) Lizzy Legend
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Unhappy at not being allowed to play on the boys' basketball team, Lizzy Trudeaux, thirteen, wishes to never miss another shot and soon finds herself playing in the NBA against her hero, the greatest player of all time.
18) Los Angeles
Author
Series
Hoop city volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Paul is the top high school basketball player coming out of Los Angeles. He has the pick of any college that he wants. So what's eating at him? Well, life is hard growing up in Watts. Plus, Paul lost his parents and sister at a young age. The only person he has left is his grandmother, who raised him. Will the pressure of leading his team through his senior season, along with choosing a college, be enough to break Paul?"--
19) Chlorine sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
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