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1) Fade away
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Myron Bolitar once had a promising career as a sportsman, until an accident forced him to quit. After a spell in the FBI he now runs his own business. Then Myron is approached to find Greg Downing. He knows Greg from old -- they were once rivals, not just in sport, but for a woman they both loved. Now Greg has vanished, and the team boss wants Myron to find him, before news of his disappearance is leaked to the press. In Greg's house Myron finds blood...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
The Boys in the Boat meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.
In the early 1930s, during the worst drought...
The Boys in the Boat meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.
In the early 1930s, during the worst drought...
3) Basketball
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and detailed photographs present the history, techniques, and interesting facts of basketball.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ty learns that passing, shooting, dribbling and making friends are all part of playing on his very first real basketball team -what's more, it's the same team his big brother, Alan, played on!
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fast, gritty, durable player who could read a basketball floor as well as anyone who ever played the game, John Stockton left the NBA after nineteen seasons with the Utah Jazz, holding a massive assist record, including the career mark (15,806). He also twice led the league in steals — with a career total of 3,265 — and retired as the NBA’s all-time leader. And during Stockton’s career, the Jazz never missed the playoffs. Coach Frank Layden...
Author
Series
Wizenard volume 1
Publisher
Granity Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
567 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A struggling basketball team in a poor neighborhood becomes changed when a mysterious coach named Rolabi Wizenard suddenly appears and agrees to help them.
Author
Publisher
Black Sheep
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sugar Rodgers's road to a successful WNBA career was fraught with hardship and tragedy. Left essentially homeless at fourteen, she clung to basketball as a way to keep herself focused and sane. Here Rodgers delivers a powerful message of discipline, perseverance, and self-determination for anyone growing up in economically challenging conditions. -- adapted from back cover
8) Jason Kidd
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Pub
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the talented point guard for the Dallas Mavericks who was named co-winner of the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award.
9) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Though not as widely known as other basketball legends, hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of the game's all-time greatest players-an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. A member of the early, scrappy NBA and one of the first professional African American players, Elgin (b. 1934) played in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, taking risks on and off the court. Known for his acrobatic style...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.
14) The crossover
Author
Series
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.
15) One false move
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is asked to keep an eye on the star of the new women's basketball league who's been receiving threats on her life.
16) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009], c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Klutzy Samantha Byrd, the laughingstock of the girls' basketball team, is determined to pay back mean Judith Bellwood for making fun of her on the court, but she never expects her revenge to get out of hand.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their ... coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by ... Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the...
20) Miracle cure
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of a trio of research scientists on the brink of coming up with an AIDS antidote dies, it looks like suicide, but TV journalist Sara Lowell and her husband, NBA star Michael Silverman, who are friends of the clinic's founder, think otherwise. Their suspicions are confirmed when several clinic patients, including the son of a U.S. senator, are murdered. A televangelist with his own agenda, Sara's prominent physician father, and a high-ranking...
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