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Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten-year-old Marcus plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream.
63) Slam!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
64) Throwing stones
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing, he ventures into journalism and begins to understand the meaning of sportsmanship.
68) The Final Four
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Volponi, a multiple award-winning author, keeps the tension high from the first to last page ... The Final Four is definitely a winner." - VOYA , starred review March Madness is in full swing, and there are only four teams let in the NCAA basketball championship. The heavily favored Michigan Spartans and the underdog Troy Trojans meet in the first game in the seminfinals, and it's there that the fates of Malcolm, Roko, Crispin, and M.J. intertwine....
69) No slam dunk
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
71) Travel team
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
72) Foul
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Rhino is one of Bridgewater's best basketball players--except when it comes to making free throws. Now he starts receiving strange threats saying that if he can't make his shots at the free throw line, someone will start hurting the people around him.
73) Nothin' but net
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When George bets his friend Louie that his basketball team will win an upcoming game, his safety monitor best friend reports him and he's forced to miss the game, possibly losing George the bet and forcing him to be Louie's butler for a week.
78) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
79) Air Bud
Pub. Date
[1997?]
Description
When Josh Framm finds himself in a new city with no friends, he's too shy to try out for the basketball team. However, he meets Buddy, a runaway golden retriever with the ability to score baskets.
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Publisher Annotation: 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...