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21) Shoot the storm
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Aaliyah is a star basketball player thanks to her dad, Boogie-G. Then she sees her father killed on the park basketball courts and completely shuts down. Now she’s set on revenge. Aaliyah makes a deal with Land-Lord, a gang boss who promises to find her father’s killer and arrange for his death in exchange for an unknown favor. Aaliyah soon realizes that getting even with her father’s killer might compromise everything she’s worked for in...
22) Playing days
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits's Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author's season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player's estranged wife that ushers him into adulthood.Growing up in Texas, Ben experienced basketball as a mostly solitary pursuit, one he gave up after riding the bench in high school. But...
23) Boost
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Savvy is the girls basketball team's star player, but, despite her height and skills, Savvy struggles with her self-confidence and searches for some way to boost her performance, but when steroids are found in her bag, Savvy denies they are hers and the rumors start to fly.
24) Full court press
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When the owner of the worst pro basketball team signs Dee Gerard, the first woman ever to play in the NBA, chaos ensues as Dee tries to play her best game while spoiled young millionaires, personal relationships, and the press wreak havoc on her life
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume 107
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
when the game gets rough, someone's bound to get stuffed.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play. All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the championship girls' basketball team. Mercy seems destined for greatness, but the road out of town is riddled with obstacles. There is her grandmother, Evelia, a strict evangelical who has visions of an imminent Rapture and sees herself as the keeper of Mercy's virtue. There are the cryptic letters from...
27) The Homeplace
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
" 'Culled from the rarefied air of James Lee Burke, Greg Iles, and John Hart, Kevin Wolf has fashioned a painstakingly perfect tale of murder, angst, and the enduring power of the human spirit. If the late, great Pat Conroy had ever decided to write a mystery, this would be it.' -- Jon Land. 'Kevin Wolfs debut novel, The Homeplace, succeeds in every way. He has crafted a gripping, fast-paced narrative with beautifully drawn characters in an authentic...
28) The right move
Author
Series
Windy City volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"RYAN. She's a distraction, that's what she is. I'm the newest Captain of the Devils, Chicago's NBA team, and the last thing I needed this year was for Indy Ivers, my sister's best friend, to move into my apartment. She's messy, emotional, and way too tempting. But when the team's General Manager vocalizes his blatant disapproval of my promotion to Captain, referring to me as an unapproachable lone wolf with no work-life balance, I can't think of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Ben Mason has always been the star player on East Grover Lake boys' basketball team. But when a new transfer student takes away the spotlight, Ben is frustrated with his role on the team. After a visit from Sal, owner of Sal's Used Sporting Goods, he learns about John Stockton, the NBA's all-time assist leader. Will Ben learn the true meaning of leadership?
31) Toni
Author
Series
Blacktop books volume 4
Pub. Date
℗♭2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Toni isn't Coach Wise's favorite player on Team Blacktop. Honestly, she's not even in his top five. And if she's being real, her own teammates keep siding with him during practice. But this isn't the first time she's been on her own, and it won't be the last. If you can't count on yourself, who can you count on?"--Page [4] of cover.
33) Blacktop: Frank
Author
Series
Blacktop books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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 baskeball team, a police officer, and a new girl on the horizon, it's Frank Torres.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In this coming-of-age story, fifteen-year-old Fawad has big dreams about being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. All he has to do now is convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team. And let him date girls from his school. Not to mention somehow get Omar, the neighborhood bully, to leave him alone..."--
35) Corrupt
Author
Series
Devil's night volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Erika... I was told that dreams were our heart's desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. His name is Michael Crist. My boyfriend's older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He's handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team and now gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. But I noticed him. I saw him. I heard him. The things that...
36) Fadeaway
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
37) Fade away
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"At 8:53 pm, thousands of people watched as Jake Foster secured the state title for his basketball team with his signature fadeaway. But by the next morning, he's disappeared without a trace. Nobody has any idea where he is: not his best friend who knows him better than anyone else, not his ex-girlfriend who may still have feelings for him, not even his little brother who never expected Jake to abandon him. Rumors abound regarding Jake's whereabouts....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Jordan's days as star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed from the waist down. Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her...until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams--or will it just come between Jordan and her best friends...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Description
Fade away. A nice house--but blood-splattered. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he once competed against was bringing back memories, both of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played, and the woman they both loved. Now Myron must unravel the strange, violent ride of a sports hero gone wrong, but it means coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.
One false move. Myron is asked...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"A fantastic and fun basketball series by Australian Olympian and NBA star Patty Mills that will entertain young readers, inspire kids to achieve their goals through sport, and showcase Patty's pride in his Indigenous heritage."--Publisher's website
"Sport-mad Patty Mills is a star on the footy field, an ace at athletics, a ripper at rugby. So when he tries out for basketball, it should be a breeze..."--Back cover