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1) Summer ball
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
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.
2) Long shot
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A point guard for his school basketball team, Pedro decides to run for class president, but his running mate, Ned, who happens to be the most popular boy in school and Pedro's teammate, does not appreciate the competition.
3) Fast break
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
4) Travel team
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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.
5) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
6) Play makers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Starting the basketball season after an incredible football championship win, Ben McBain and his crew, including the talented Shawn O'Brien, are challenged by newcomer Chase Braggs, whose point guard abilities outstrip Ben's and who attracts Lily's attention while Ben is busy practicing.
8) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Its simple. All Billy Raynor wants to do is shoot. After all, he is one of the best shooters in the league. But with his dad as his coach, and his parents newly separated, somehow everything has become complicated. His brother Ben, the piano prodigy, hardly talks anymore. His mom is always traveling on business. And his dad is always on his case about not being a team player. But when Ben's piano recital falls on the same day as the championship game,...
9) True legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
10) The turnover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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"--
11) No slam dunk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) Jump
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a high-profile basketball star is accused of rape, ex-lawyer and pro sports investigator DiMaggio is called into the case and must sift through a media circus of innuendo and lies in order to discern the truth.
14) Full court press
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is what happens when the desperate golden-boy owner of the worst pro-basketball team in the world and his equally desperate golden-boy coach do the unthinkable: sign the first woman ever to play in the NBA. Her name is Dee Gerard, the daughter of a New York playground legend and the product of God having an exceptionally good day. A star in Europe, but weary of bad arenas, she retires - until the day a scout for the hapless New York Knights calls...
15) Too far
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The biggest thing that's ever happened to the Long Island town of South Fork is its high school basketball team, blessed with two players of national caliber and the white-hot attention of the media. Not even the death of the team's manager can dampen the enthusiasm for long, but then a kid on the school paper begins to hear things--stories of brutalities at a team retreat, of hazing that went ove rthe line. . .of murder.
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starting the basketball season after their football championship, Ben McBain and his crew are challenged by newcomer Chase Braggs, whose point guard abilities outstrip Ben's and who attracts Lily's attention while Ben is busy practicing.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
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