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Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
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) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
3) Boost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
4) Swagger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
7) Tall story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and has a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
8) Hoops
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson sees the city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions as a possible escape from Harlem but fears the pressures that have sidelined his coach, Cal.
Author
Series
Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When their two worlds collide in seventh grade, fraternal twins and opposites Owen and Russell find themselves in direct competition at school, on the court, and at home.
10) Dino-basketball
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a basketball game at Mastadon Square Garden.
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
After Pippa Park mysteriously receives a basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private School, she takes the opportunity to reinvent herself, but anonymous messages on social media and trying to keep secrets from her new classmates threaten her new self.
13) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
14) Fast break
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 68
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
18) This way home
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
19) Here to stay
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
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