In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
Ten-year-old Marcus Robinson plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream.
Champions are formed when people make those around them better and this book shows how you can be a winner every day.
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!
The best-selling series from Eisner-nominated Takehiko Inoue, one of Japan’s greatest manga creators.
Go to the moon
When Mary-Kate and Ashley make it onto the school basketball team, everything seems to be going well until their school uniforms and star player vanish.
In Year of the Dunk, Asher Price does, and he seizes on basketball’s slam dunk--a feat richly freighted with distinctly American themes of culture, race, and upward mobility--as a gauge to determine his own hidden potential.
Perry Boyd is his team's best offensive player, but when he starts to feel threatened by the talent and size of his teammate Jason Carter, he becomes reluctant to share the ball with him, threatening his team's chances at a state ...
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Determined to win a place on the National Youth basketball team, Ashlee Carson defies her mother and enlists the help of her estranged father, a former professional basketball player, to reach her goal--with disastrous consequences.