Full-color photos, reference guide, and facts describe the basic skills necessary for volleyball, as well as information on the history of volleyball, equipment, rules and different plays, volleyball variations, and coaching.
Alicia agrees to organize a volleyball tournament to raise money for a friend's cheerleading team, but when her serves fail to measure up, Alicia wonders if she is going to humiliate herself at the game.
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and even though she is frustrated with her summer league team, when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
With help from her well-connected aunt, fifteen-year-old Nobara Sumiyoshi, a talented, ambitious volleyball player, finally gets her chance to break into the competitive high school volleyball world, but she must fight her underhanded mother--who wants her to be a proper young restaurant mistress--to stay on the court.
