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Author
Series
Winning season volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Free throw specialist Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player.
63) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
65) Big & hairy
Publisher
Distributed by Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Picasso Dewlap is new to Cedar Island and is having trouble making friends. Things get worse when he loses a game for the community's basketball team. Then Picasso meets Ed, a young Sasquatch, who he discovers is a natural basketball player. WIth Ed playing, Picasso's team begins winning every game. Picasso soon becomes the most popular kid in his school. But he soon learns that true friendship is more important than winning games...
Author
Series
Super hoops volume 1
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The members of the Branford Bulls live and breathe to play basketball and are ready to take the championship. When their coach and his son, two of the Bulls best players, move away, the team members wonder if they still have what it takes to be winners.
67) Play dead
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tyler couldn't believe it when he discovered his super ability while playing basketball with his dad. He's a perfect shot! Since he can't miss, he quits passing to his teammates. Soon the other teams figure out how to stop him, and his teammates get mad.
Author
Series
Local legends volume 2
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ace basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance. With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking the record will be easy for him to do. However, T.D.'s life takes several unexpected twists and turns before he approaches the final game of his middle school career. After learning the hard way about disappointment...
71) Technical foul
Author
Series
Winning season volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when the point guard accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.
72) The rebounder
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Doug Fulton, coach of the Hamilton High Panthers, is certain that transfer student Chris Patton can lead the team to a championship, but a tragic accident has made Chris decide to never play basketball again.
73) Foul
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Rhino is one of Bridgewater's best basketball players - except when it comes to making free throws. It's not a big deal, until he begins receiving strange threats. If Rhino can't make his shots at the free throw line, someone will start hurting the people around him. Everyone's a suspect: a college recruiter, Rhino's jealous best friend, and the father Rhino never knew - who recently escaped from prison"-- Cover verso.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George knows that his basketball team, the Fighting Ferrets, is really good. So when Louie proposes a bet for their upcoming game, George accepts the challenge: the person on the losing team has to be the winner's butler for a week! George is confident he'll lead his team to victory. But then his best friend Alex, a school safety monitor who's been on a rule-enforcing frenzy, reports George after the super burp makes him misbehave. That means George...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Toby finally decides to join the middle school basketball team, he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend JJ, who is the team's star player, as well as in other areas of his life.
77) Home court
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scobre Educational
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"You are Phil "Fixer" Halverson, center for the Chesterton Middle School Dargons. At 6'1'', you've got the height to get the job done--as long as it's not a free throw! They call you "Fixer" because your defensive skills are practically legendary. You're fast and graceful, and on the court, you're in control--at least, you used to be. Problems at home are finding their way into your game. Your mom is always upset, your dad is always at work, and your...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marcus, hoping to become a professional basketball player when he grows up, is surprised to learn his idol, superstar Jason Carter, is a big believer in getting a college education.
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