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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daren's tendency to blame everyone but himself when anything goes wrong causes problems with his best friend, with a young neighbor who idolizes him, and with one of his basketball teammates.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 29
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
57 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a special autographed basketball is stolen, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to identify the thief.
5) Swish!
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two girls' teams, the Cardinals and the Blue Jays, play a close and intense game of basketball.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 68
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
8) Big shot
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
9) True legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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.
10) We are family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe [n]ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season"--
11) Puppy love
Author
Language
English
Description
After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies needing rescue.
12) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
15) Free throw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Since Derek is now the tallest player on his basketball team, the coach decides to have him play center but Jason, the former center, has little confidence in Derek and will not pass him the ball.
16) Shot clock
Author
Series
Shot clock volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After the death of his friend, Tony must work to make the basketball team, but when he 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.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young child learns that he does not have to be the strongest, fastest, or jump the highest, but as long as he has determenation and heart any goal is achievable.
18) I got next
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
[40] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins the competition ready to try his best"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Khalil, a young Black boy, starts at a new school and is excited to join the basketball team--until he begins to experience and witnesses subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism among his new teammates. Khalil struggles with how to react and stand up for himself and others against his new friends who have taken him in"--Amazon.
20) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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