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.
Introduces students to the mathematical concepts involved in basketball, including three-point conversions and free throw percentages, and contains activities designed to help readers practice math skills.
Lionel Shephard dreams of joining the NBA, but while his father disapproves of his plans, his teachers are threatening to fail him--unaware of his poor reading abilities--and Lionel needs to decide how far he is willing to go for his dreams.
a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska
D'Orso, Michael
Follows the Fort Yukon Eagles high school basketball team from its 2004 preseason to the 2005 Alaskan state championship, exploring the lives of its players and coach and examining the six-hundred-person village's Gwich'in Athabascan heritage.
Seventh-grade basketball star Brett is used to being good, if not the best, at everything he does, but after finding one thing he cannot do he loses confidence and starts making mistakes.
Toby decides to join the middle school basketball team, but he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend JJ, who is the team's star player.
