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1) Here to stay
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
4) Rez ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up--not on the court, not in school and not in love.
Author
Series
Usdin Carly volume 3
Publisher
BOOM! box
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The basketball season is off to a start, and Charlie, Liv, and the rest of the Avant-Guards are trekking across state for their very first game. They've hardly had time to polish their skills, though, and if the season isn't going to end before it's really begun, they'll have to fight to make their dreams come true!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After five months of sheer absolute craziness I was going back to being plain old background D.J. In photographs of course I'm always in the background . . .
But it turns out 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
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women's Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women's basketball on the map"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker and Beastie Boy Adam Yauch documents the lives and talent of some of America's most gifted high school basketball players as they prep for the first annual Elite 24 all-star game in 2006 at Harlem's famed Rucker Park. Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabar were groomed on that same court, and young hopefuls such as Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans and Kevin Love hope to follow in their footsteps
10) Fadeaway
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a high school basketball star goes missing overnight after thousands watched him secure the title for his team, his best friend, his conflicted ex-girlfriend, and his devastated younger brother search for clues that expose deeply hidden community secrets.
11) Cruise control
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Khalil, a young Black boy, starts at a new school and is excited to join the basketball team--until he begins to experience and witnesses subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism among his new teammates. Khalil struggles with how to react and stand up for himself and others against his new friends who have taken him in"--Amazon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Hot Boyz, Chance will do anything to become Ahmad's girl, but a lie might blow up in everyone's face; and in The Boy Trap, Gabrielle schemes to be Tyler's pampered basketball wife, but her cheating ways put their relationship on the line.
15) James Harden
Author
Language
English
Description
Picked third overall in the 2009 NBA Draft after two years playing at Arizona State University, James Harden rose from a supporting role with the Oklahoma City Thunder to become one of the NBA's greatest current players and the 2018 league MVP for the Houston Rockets. Harden, the youngest of three siblings, used basketball as a way to rise above the mean streets of Compton, California to NBA superstardom. He is a four-time All-First Team NBA selection...
16) LeBron James
Author
Language
English
Description
LeBron Raymone James went straight from high school to become the 2003 NBA Player Draft number one overall pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers. James, in 15 NBA seasons with the Cavaliers, Miami Heat, and Los Angeles Lakers has won a total of three NBA titles, including one for his hometown of Cleveland. The three-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) and four-time NBA League MVP is considered by many to be one of the greatest players in the history...
17) Stephen Curry
Author
Language
English
Description
Stephen Curry is arguably one of the greatest shooters in the history of the NBA. He was an essential part of the Golden State Warriors rise to greatness in the 2010s, returning the team to the NBA Finals and helping to lead them to their first championships in forty years. After leading little known Davidson College to back-to-back NCAA tournament Regional Finals in his sophomore and junior years, Curry entered the 2009 NBA Draft as a top prospect...
19) The Avant-Guards
Author
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie transfers to art college and struggles to find her place there, which is when the barely-a-basketball-team tries to recruit her.
20) Pass It Forward
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Lucas has big dreams of getting a basketball scholarship and helping his mom out of poverty. When a growth spurt helps Lucas become a force on the court, his dreams finally seem within reach. But Lucas's brother tries to steer him toward a very different path: making easy money on the street. Can Lucas keep his focus and stay...
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