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1) The chance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
2) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
This time. John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed,...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book tells Dr. J's amazing story, following his basketball journey from his Long Island childhood to the street games of New York City to the college career as his skills, reputation, and character grew. It follows his entrance into the ABA, where he revolutionized the game by glamorizing the dunk, and his conquering of the NBA, where he was Michael Jordan before there was a Jordan. It relates the family struggles he's had since leaving the game...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Wilt Chamberlain to Michael Jordan to LeBron James, this title features all the high-flying dunkers. Basketball fans will love Spotlight stats and informative boxes for each player. Not to mention great full-color and historic action photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
6) Unguarded
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unflinching memoir from the six-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Hall of Famer, revealing how Scottie Pippen, the youngest of twelve, overcame two family tragedies and universal disregard by college scouts to become an essential component of the greatest basketball dynasty of the last fifty years. So how did the youngest of twelve go from growing up poor in the small town of Hamburg, Arkansas, enduring two family tragedies...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Some of basketball's biggest names happen to be the NBA's greatest guards: Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade just to name a few! Basketball fans will love Spotlight stats and informative boxes for each player. Not to mention great full-color and historic action photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Bolitar volume 5
Language
English
Description
Follows hot-headed sports agent Myron Bolitar as he tries to protect a star of the women's professional league, an attractive athlete whose troubled past may claim both their lives.
9) Fade away
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sports agent Myron Bolitar had once aimed for a career in the NBA, until an injury cost him his chance to go pro, but when the star player for the New Jersey Dragons disappears without a trace, Bolitar takes the undercover assignment of his dreams--a position on the team.
11) Play dead
Author
Publisher
Signet
Language
English
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.
12) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of the NBA star, who rose from poverty in Athens, Greece, to super-stardom in America with the Milwaukee Bucks and how he has evolved into a devoted father, brother, son, teammate and global icon.
Author
Publisher
Balantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann's remarkable debut offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality hiding behind the romanticized hoop dreams of America's basketball prodigies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Kobe Bryant was just an eighteen-year-old high-school basketball player when he decided to enter the National Basketball Association's draft. Though he was the thirteenth overall pick by the Charlotte Hornets, he would never play a single game for them.Instead, Kobe was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he would spend his entire twenty-season career, winning five championships and numerous awards. Author Ellen Labreque takes readers through...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
xi, 340 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations, 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young child learns that he does not have to be the strongest, fastest, or jump the highest, but as long as he has determination and heart, any goal is achievable.