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21) Taking up space
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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...
22) Long Shot
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging a teammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.
23) Box out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing team wide participation.
24) El crossover
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
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.
25) Hot Hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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.
26) Free throw
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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.
27) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When your the smallest kid playing a big man's game, the challenges never stop-especially when your name is Danny Walker. Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
Author
Series
Million dollar series (Dan Gutman) volume 1
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 68
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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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 cańђةt 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...
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 10
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hank will need help from his father and friends if he is to help his second grade basketball team beat their arch rivals for the third year in a row.
35) Puppy love
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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
36) Schooled
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lionel Shephard dreams of joining the NBA, but while his father disapproves of his plans, his teachers are threatening to fail him--unaware of his poor reading abilities--and Lionel needs to decide how far he is willing to go for his dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.
38) Un tiro perfecto
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Formats
Description
A Layla le encanta jugar al básquetbol, especialmente con su mejor amiga, Danika. Ahora, después de pasar la mayor parte del verano preparándose para las pruebas, Layla está ansiosa por dejar de ser suplente y convertirse en una de las cinco titulares. Cuando por fin llegan las pruebas, Layla no solo forma parte de la plantilla titular, sino que también la nombran capitán del equipo. Todas sus amigas y compañeras de equipo están emocionadas...
39) We are family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Kids have big dreams. And when those dreams are on the line, how far are they willing to go to achieve them? When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season. Jayden Carr has been training all summer to be ready for Hoop Group--the free afterschool basketball program where his hero, NBA superstar Kendrick...
40) Taking sides
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.