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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
A spot on the basketball team isn't the only thing Hudson's looking for. Cut from AAA hockey, seventh-grader Hudson Pickle needs to make the basketball team. But, after having an asthma attack at the first tryout, his chances aren't looking good. Then it's discovered that his uncle Vic has a genetic respiratory illness. Could this mean Hudson has something worse than asthma? And while this DNA mystery is being unraveled, will the truth about what...
4) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
5) Big shot
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"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 area 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 of winning even a single game look...
7) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & schuster books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
11) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Publisher
Puffin books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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.
12) Travel team
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he is cut from his travel basketball team, the very same team that his father once led to national prominence, twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A glance was all it took. That kind of connection, the immediate and raw understanding of another person, just doesn't come along very often. And as rising stars on their Texas high schools' respective basketball teams, destined for bright futures in college and beyond, it seems like a match made in heaven. But Carli and Rex have secrets. As do their families.
Liara Tamani, the author of the acclaimed Calling My Name, follows two teenagers as they...
14) The turnover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Comeback kid
Author
Series
King of the bench volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Steve and his friends Joey and Carlos, along with the super athletic Becky, join the Mighty Plumbers basketball team, Steve doesn't get to play and is stuck on the bench during the league championship game until he decides to perform his secret ritual move that could win the game.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.
18) Bouncing back
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the city shuts down his wheelchair team's gym, thirteen-year-old Carlos, new to life in a wheelchair, must embrace his new role in the sport he loves to truly become part of the team--and help save their season.
19) The crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-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.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully.
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