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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
2) Hooper
Author
Language
English
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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. But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police...
3) Play dead
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Language
English
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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.
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Series
Winning season volume 7
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.
5) Glory road
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Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Author
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Winning season volume 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.
8) Bill Russell
Author
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Boston Celtics basketball player who became the first African American inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
11) Bill Bradley
Author
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of William Bradley, a Princeton University Rhodes Scholar and NBA All-Star who was a successful basketball player for the New York Knicks before becoming a United States Senator.
12) Jerry West
Author
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and forty-year legacy of basketball great Jerry West.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Language
English
Description
Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from...
15) Bob Cousy
Author
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of Bob Cousy, a poverty-stricken New Yorker who went on to become an NBA All-Star for the Boston Celtics.
