Brown-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 BRODeuker, Carl
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 DUEBattle, Craig
Summary: "It's summertime again, and we join the 12-year-olds of Camp Average--er, Avalon--as the season is winding to a close. Last year, our favourite junior campers (including Andre, Mack, Nelson, and Miles) won the big baseball tournament, so this year, the camp has established a special competitive stream for elite athletes. Camp director Winston even opened up space for girls--so Makayla, Nicole...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BATTatum, Jayson
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, Marc
Summary: After bragging to his pen pal about his basketball skills, Arthur realizes that he has to make good on his boasts when the pen pal comes to visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BROGourlay, Candy.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GOULupica, Mike.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPFeinstein, John.
Summary: After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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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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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BUTAdler, David A.
Summary: When a collectible basketball is stolen from a retiring coach after a game, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CJ 29Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARMaddox, Jake.
Summary: Since Derek is now the tallest player on his basketball team, the coach decides to have him play center but Jason, the former center, has little confidence in Derek and will not pass him the ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADMaddox, Jake.
Summary: When Jamal is asked to join the elite Cyclone basketball team, he worries that his ratty old shoes--all his family can afford--will hurt his image on the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADLupica, Mike.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LUPHicks, Betty.
Summary: Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HICChristopher, Matt.
Summary: Long practice improves Mel's value as a basketball player, but he finds it difficult to surmount the prejudice of Caskie Bennett, the basketball team's star player and Mel's new neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1991