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Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 10
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hank will need help from his father and friends if he is to help his second grade basketball team beat their arch rivals for the third year in a row.
3) El crossover
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
5) Baller Ina
Author
Description
"A rhyming picture book about Ina who is a graceful ballerina who also loves to get competitive on the basketball court"--
6) No slam dunk
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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.
8) True legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
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.
9) On point
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Zayd is so excited to finally be on the Gold Team in basketball but when the team starts struggling and his best friend quits to play football he must step up for his team"--
10) Fast break
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Young Derek bites off more than he can chew when he decides to enter the school talent show and try out for the basketball team"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny tries to fit in with his new, privileged peers, Nasir spends more time with his cousin, Wallace, who is being evicted. Nasir cańђةt help but wonder why the neighborhood is falling over itself to help Bunny when Wallace is in trouble. When Wallace makes a bet against Bunny, Nasir is faced with an impossible...
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Series streaming now on Disney+, with executive producers including NBA great LeBron James!The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning middle grade bestseller! Basketball and heartache share the court in this slam-dunk novel in verse.“With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. ’Cuz tonight I’m delivering,” raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell. Thanks to their...
14) Rivals
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
From the author of the award-winning Game Changer comes a new novel about two student-athletes searching for stardom, a young reporter searching for the truth, and a crosstown basketball rivalry that goes too far.
The people of Walthorne love their basketball-and one of the things they love most is the special rivalry between the Walthorne North Middle School Cougars and the Walthorne South Middle School Panthers. As the season begins, two star players...
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Appears on list
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
16) Swagger
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
17) Hoops: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
18) We are family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Kids have big dreams. And when those dreams are on the line, how far are they willing to go to achieve them? When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season. Jayden Carr has been training all summer to be ready for Hoop Group--the free afterschool basketball program where his hero, NBA superstar Kendrick...
19) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"--
20) The sixth man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"New kid Max Bellotti has the talent to lead The Lions basketball team straight to victory, but Max he also has a secret that could disrupt their winning streak once it's exposed"--