Nominated for the Ottawa Book Award. Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he’s blindsided by the unexpected...
Basketball players
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Author:Cumyn, AlanSummary: -
Author:Lane, AmySummary:Xander Karcek has only wanted two things in his life: Christian Edwards and basketball—the man he loves and the game that let him escape a childhood he’d rather forget. His two obsessions have served him well. He and Chris beat the odds...
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith...
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Author:Kriegel, MarkSummary:Pete Maravich was a great basketball player and this is his story.
- Author:Hart, ReginaSummary:
As her husband, an NBA legend, prepares to lead his team to the championship before he retires, Dr. Marilyn Devry-Evans, tired of always standing in his shadow, decides to focus on her own career until a devastating secret is revealed...
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Author:Foley, JohnSummary:Basketball is Jackson O’Connell’s life. Much more than a game, it allows him to cross barriers of class and race, and make new friends from the rival high school. Driven by his passion for hoops, he can almost forget his alcoholic...
- Author:Farizan, SaraSummary:
For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called...
- Author:Haase, Jerod; Horvath, MarkSummary:
Floor Burns, by Jerod Haase and Mark Horvath, takes us inside the 1996-97 Kansas University Jayhawks basketball season. What makes this book such a unique and fascinating read is that it doesn’t follow the trend of many...
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Author:Lane, AmySummary:Xander Karcek había querido sólo dos cosas en su vida: Christian Edwards y el baloncesto—el hombre que amaba y el juego que le había permitido escapar de una infancia que prefería olvidar. Sus dos obsesiones le habían venido bien. Él y...
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Author:Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, Obstfeld, RaymondSummary:Like many kids, Kareem, known then as Lew Alcindor, struggled to fit in, please a strict father, and deal with severe shyness. Unlike most, he had to grapple with a growth spurt that shot him up taller than everyone else. Also, the...
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Author:Lane, AmySummary:Xander Karcek hat sich immer nur zwei Dinge vom Leben gewünscht: Christian Edwards und Basketball—den Mann, den er liebt und den Sport, der in seiner Kindheit, die er lieber vergessen würde, seine einzige Zuflucht war. Seine beiden...
- Author:Wade, DwyaneSummary:
"NBA star Dwyane Wade discusses the rewarding responsibilities of being a single dad to his two sons, Zaire and Zion and highlights of his basketball career"--
