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Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After only ever playing pick-up games, Ana Ramirez is excited to attend a basketball summer camp where she'll play on a real team with real teammates. But when the coach says they'll use something called "zone defense," the shooting guard feels totally lost and starts to doubt her skills. Can Ana get out of her comfort zone and ask for help?"--
43) Puppy love
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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.
44) I got next
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins the competition ready to try his best"--
45) Dream team
Author
Series
Love puppies volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A mission like no other has the Love Puppies stuck. Eliana has excellent basketball skills, and Barkley knows she's talented enough to make the school team--that is, if she can figure out how to be a good teammate. How are the pups supposed to help someone who has no interest in sharing the ball, playing nice, or making friends?"--
47) Full-court press
Author
Series
Hoops volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Elle begins to volunteer two days a week working with children with special needs, she has trouble juggling her new passion, basketball obligations, and schoolwork.
48) The Final Four
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.
49) Free throw fail
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jake is a top scorer on the Tyndall Tigers, in fact you might say that basketball is in his blood, but when it comes to free throws he has a problem--he gets nervous and cannot seem to make them in a game situation.
50) Hot shot
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Julian Pryce was star center on an undefeated basketball team before moving to a new town, where he quickly gets on the wrong side of the starting center, whose father happens to be their coach.
51) The game
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
High school senior Marcus makes a mistake in an important basketball game, but will the mysterious gift of a chance to relive the day make things better or worse?
52) Hoops and hopes
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"For twelve-year-old Autumn Holloway, a week at Blazing Hoops wheelchair basketball camp is a dream come true. She has high hopes that it will be her ticket to making friends and connections in the adaptive sports community. But Autumn struggles to fit in with her wealthier fellow campers. To make matters worse, she has to use a borrowed basketball wheelchair that keeps needing repairs. It takes a chance encounter with the campus custodial staff to...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In "Basketball Bats," Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.
In "Goof-off goalie," Ten-year-old Goose is best at goofing off, but when he decides to become the goalie for their soccer team, his friend Henry sets up a practice schedule and enlists their other friends to help Goose improve his skills.
56) Elle of the ball
Author
Series
Hoops volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Having shot up to six feet tall over the summer, seventh-grader Elle not only has trouble controlling her limbs on the basketball court, she dreads the upcoming school cotillion.
57) Blacktop: Toni
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Toni isn't Coach Wise's favorite player on Team Blacktop. Honestly, she's not even in his top five. And if she's being real, her own teammates keep siding with him during practice. But this isn't the first time she's been on her own, and it won't be the last. If you can't count on yourself, who can you count on?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes volume 9
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.
59) Full-court mess
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Lisa Vega and her basketball teammates, the Dingoes, have made it to the regional playoffs, but before the first game their school gym is vandalized, the hoops, nets, basketballs all destroyed; with no place to practice in the middle of winter the playoffs are in jeopardy, but as this years' captain Lisa is determined to find out who it was who tried to sabotage the team--and why.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.