Butler, Caron
Summary: Former NBA All-Star Caron Butler and acclaimed author Justin A. Reynolds deliver another superstar performance in this companion novel to Shot Clock about KO, a budding AAU basketball star as he attempts to find redemption on the court and reconnection with his incarcerated father. Kofi "KO" Douglas knows how to handle pressure. After all, he is the newly announced #1 ranked AAU player in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Bub is a star with a basketball and a pug level hoop--but now Bella wants him to teach the other dogs the same trick, and Bub is not sure he wants to be in the spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: "Nate plays soccer, but he doesn't love it. He plays because it's what his family expects. Then Lucas Cawley moves in across the street. Lucas isn't like any of Nate's sports friends--he's poor, his parents are mostly absent, and he's devoted to his sister, Megan, who has a learning disability. Lucas may be an outcast at school, but he and Nate find common ground in their fierce games of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DUEBishop, Jenn
Summary: New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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Summary: Baby Dunks-a-Lot becomes an NBA superstar with impressive basketball skills and amazing dunks, but between lost naps and pacifiers he may not be ready for the NBA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TATBrown-Wood, JaNay
Summary: "A mission like no other has the Love Puppies stuck. Eliana has excellent basketball skills, and Barkley knows she's talented enough to make the school team--that is, if she can figure out how to be a good teammate. How are the pups supposed to help someone who has no interest in sharing the ball, playing nice, or making friends? With a little bit of magic and a whole lot of kindness, the Love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BROHarrow, Jamie
Summary: "They call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen on the way to a national championship. Eight years after graduation, Annie Radford is not happy to be back at her alma mater in her old job with the Ardwyn Tigers' basketball team. Worse, her coworker from back in college, Ben Callahan, is still on the Tigers staff, and he's annoyingly wholesome, hot, and clinging to a grudge against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARHeaden, Sandra W.
Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024