basketball stories

When the most losing team in ninth grade basketball begins winning at the hands of one pint-sized player whose basketball seems to have a mind of its own, the coach and everyone else cannot understand why.

An American boy of Chinese-Irish heritage learns about the game of basketball and about his Chinese background when he joins the Chinatown Express team.

Two girls' teams, the Cardinals and the Blue Jays, play a close and intense game of basketball.

Sam Pickett arrives in the small town of Willow Creek, Montana, wanting nothing more than to hide from the violence and madness that have destroyed his life, but instead finds neighbors suffering from the same problems he is.

Thirteen-year-old Savvy is the star player of the girls basketball team, but, despite her height and skills, Savvy struggles with her self-confidence and searches for some way to boost her performance, but when steroids are found in her bag, Savvy denies they are hers and the rumors start to fly.

Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when the point guard accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.

Twelve-year-old Matt Hill struggles to make the basketball team in his new school while keeping out of trouble.

Stories and poems about playing basketball.