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22) We are family
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 68
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
c1996
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.
24) 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.
25) Rez ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
26) Home court
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.
27) Play makers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
29) Frank
Author
Series
Blacktop books volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Frank's not great at staying out of trouble. He's also not great at driving cars. After his joyride ends in a crash, he's stuck with a court-appointed community mentor for the summer. But it's not too bad. Officer Appleby's all right. And if anyone can handle a basketball team, a police officer, and a new girl on the horizon, it's Frank Torres.
30) On guard
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
31) Night hoops
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
[2009], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and the erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
Author
Series
Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
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.
33) Double dribble
Author
Series
Athlete vs. mathlete series volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fraternal twins Russ and Owen's domination of the seventh-grade basketball team falters when Mitch and Marcus Matthews, identical twins, arrive and prove their skill on the court and in the classroom.
35) Elle of the ball
Author
Series
Hoops (Donne) volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having shot up to six feet tall over the summer, seventh-grader Elle not only has trouble controlling her limbs on the basketball court, she dreads the upcoming school cotillion.
36) Out of bounds
Author
Series
Hoops (Donne) volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Elle begins to question whether basketball is worth the time and effort she is putting in, and who she would be if not a basketball star.
37) Travel team
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court--but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn't the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player...
38) Hooper
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he is tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
39) Puppy love
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
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