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1) Summer ball
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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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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English
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Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose's classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana's favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, "Hoosiers" profiles some of the world's most famous basketball players and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.
5) Long shot
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Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
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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.
6) Play dead
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When her husband, Boston Celtics' star player David Baskin, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model-turned-entrepreneur Laura Ayars begins to suspect that David's death wasn't a simple accident and launches her own investigation.
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The tradition of college basketball excellence that reigns at Indiana University can only be matched by a handful of other elite programs, while the fierce devotion of IU basketball fans has been selling out arenas and inspiring generation after generation of Hoosier fans for over a century. This newly revised edition of the captures the glory, the tradition, and the championships, from the team's inaugural games in the winter of 1901 all the way...
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"Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Kryzewski's best friends, closest advisors, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and assistants, three-time New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor takes you behind the Blue...
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As fire is to prairie or water to fish, so is basketball part of the natural environment in Indiana. Round ball, or Hoosier Hysteria is so much a part of the state's heritage that many people believe basketball was invented in Indiana. Naismith's game is a virtual religion in the state.
While everyone knows about the growth of basketball in high schools and in college, the story of Indiana's role in the development of professional basketball has...
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Steve and Susan Carol sports mysteries volume 1
[Sports Beat volume 1
Sports beat volume 01
[Steve and Susan sports mysteries volume 1
[Sports Beat volume 1
Sports beat volume 01
[Steve and Susan sports mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
760L
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English
Description
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. Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream...
12) Dino-basketball
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 460L
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English
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Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a basketball game at Mastadon Square Garden.
13) Fast break
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
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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.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
530L
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English
Description
Samantha Byrd is a klutz on the basketball team and off and Judith Bellwood is making her life miserable. Sam meets someone who can grant three wishes but she is not careful what she wishes for and finds them coming true.
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"In this action-packed collection of stories, Hoosier alum John Laskowski and veteran sportswriter Stan Sutton take readers onto the court and up to the basket with some of the greatest IU players to ever grace the hardwood. Fans will relive all the excitement, the disappointment, the laughter, and the celebration that has turned IU basketball into a statewide religion. The history of the Indiana program is revealed through the memories of the school's...
17) The legends club Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
1040L
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English
Description
On March 18, 1980, the immensely powerful Duke basketball program announced the hiring of its new coach -- the man who would resurrect the team, restore glory to Duke, and defeat the legendary Dean Smith, who coached down the road at UNC Chapel Hill and had turned UNC into a powerhouse. Duke's new man was Mike Krzyzewski. The only problem was, no one knew who Krzyzewski was, he had a so-so record in his short time as head coach of Army, and worst...
18) I'll show you
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In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world.
After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as "Pooh" was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he became the youngest MVP in league history. He and the Bulls believed the city's...
After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as "Pooh" was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he became the youngest MVP in league history. He and the Bulls believed the city's...
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Presents a comprehensive look at the coaches, players, and people behind the scenes of the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament. Focuses on the teams participating in the 2005 Final Four: the Michigan State Spartans, the University of Louisville Cardinals, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini, and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1120L
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English
Description
"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
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