Catalog Search Results
1) Justin
Author
Series
Blacktop books volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Justin keeps a list of goals stashed under his mattress. Number 1 is "figure out life plans." Number 5 is "earn Zen Master rating in WoW." Number 7 is "play a little basketball every day." Nowhere on that list is "take on the crew from Ghosttown," but that's the type of trouble that always seems to finds him, and he's not the type to back down from a challenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Meathouse Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Bill Walton is driving Dave Pasch crazy. There's nothing the renowned and respected play-by-play man can do to keep the "World's Tallest Deadhead" from going on long, strange rants that have nothing to do with the basketball game they're announcing. Their night only gets longer and stranger after the game, when Bill discovers that the daughter of a former teammate has been kidnapped. They can't go to the cops or the FBI, and when Pasch tells Walton...
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who?s keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway . . .
4) Swagger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
5) Foul trouble
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
6) Big shot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances...
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 10
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Maxwell loves basketball so much, he dreams about it every night-crashing the boards, splashing treys, and taking it to the rack. Then one day he wakes up . . . in Basketball Town! Everywhere he looks, everyone is hooping, and Maxwell can play anytime he wants. To get him ready for the Championship, the Mayor sends Maxwell to Skillsville, where he aces Alley-Oop Academy and the College of the Crossover, earning his dunking diploma from Phi Slamma...
9) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1974, and Julie Albright has just moved to a new neighborhood and started at a new school. So when she finds out the basketball team is 'boys only,' Julie is determined to fight for her right to play. Will a petition with 150 names be enough to make the coach change his mind and give her a chance?" --
12) Here to stay
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) Playing forward
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Off the bench
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
15) Baller Ina
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A rhyming picture book about Ina who is a graceful ballerina who also loves to get competitive on the basketball court"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"They call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen on the way to a national championship. Eight years after graduation, Annie Radford is not happy to be back at her alma mater in her old job with the Ardwyn Tigers' basketball team. Worse, her coworker from back in college, Ben Callahan, is still on the Tigers staff, and he's annoyingly wholesome, hot, and clinging to a grudge against Annie for abandoning him and the team their senior year....
17) Bouncing back
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jackson confronts many challenges in his first year of middle school as his mother plans to get married, the best player on his basketball team leaves, he needs to ask a girl to go to a school dance with him, and his best friend's father is injured in Afghanistan.
20) Robbie: Season 1
Publisher
Comedy Central
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An overzealous church-league basketball coach aspires to restore glory to his rural Georgia town by following in his father's footsteps as the infamous coach who won two high school basketball championships in the nineties.
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request