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2) Fast break
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon is just seventeen years old when he and his South Sudanese teammates come to the United States to compete in a basketball tournament. The opportunity to be scouted by college coaches is a dream come true. Though he is an amazing athlete, his technical game needs work. And then Sooley receives devastating news from home: as a result of the civil war raging across South Sudan, his father is dead, his sister is missing, and...
4) Hooper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
5) Foul trouble
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny tries to fit in with his new, privileged peers, Nasir spends more time with his cousin, Wallace, who is being evicted. Nasir can't help but wonder why the neighborhood is falling over itself to help Bunny when Wallace is in trouble. When Wallace makes a bet against Bunny, Nasir is faced with an impossible decision--maybe...
7) Here to stay
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that.
Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. There's a spirit that endures in Willow Creek, Montana. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten...
9) Hot hand
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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.
10) Taking up space
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach...
11) Double scribble
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Diego "Clutch" Rivera was the hero of his school's basketball team last year, but this season things have not started well, and Diego is losing his confidence--but with some help from his dad, and a friend who gives him a sketchbook and suggests that he draw his feelings, he starts to rediscover the fun in basketball.
12) Game changers
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A new coach's flagrant racism, a teammate's endless sabotage, and local media interest make it difficult for Andi Carillo and Jeff Michaels to keep both of their basketball teams on track.
13) The turnover
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When eighth grade basketball player Shaena suffers a concussion in a game, she finds herself sidelined two weeks before the big game--and as she watches her team practice with the new freshman player, Shaena, who is used to being the star, starts to worry that by the time she recovers she will no longer be needed.
16) Red-hot hightops
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelly becomes a confident and aggressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds.
17) Rebound time
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.
18) Bound for danger
Author
Series
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When new team members are being kidnapped and threatened, Frank and Joe join the basketball team at the request of their principal to uncover the culprits.
19) Un tiro perfecto
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
"Layla's hard work pays off when she moves from a substitute to starting player and captain of the basketball team, but her best friend and teammate Danika causes trouble"--Provided by publisher.