wheelchair basketball

"For twelve-year-old Autumn Holloway, a week at Blazing Hoops wheelchair basketball camp is a dream come true. She has high hopes that it will be her ticket to making friends and connections in the adaptive sports community. But Autumn struggles to fit in with her wealthier fellow campers. To make matters worse, she has to use a borrowed basketball wheelchair that keeps needing repairs. It takes a chance encounter with the campus custodial staff to help Autumn realize that, no matter where she's from or how she speaks, she belongs at camp--and on the court--just as much as anyone else"--Provided by publisher.

"For twelve-year-old Autumn Holloway, a week at Blazing Hoops wheelchair basketball camp is a dream come true. She has high hopes that it will be her ticket to making friends and connections in the adaptive sports community. But Autumn struggles to fit in with her wealthier fellow campers. To make matters worse, she has to use a borrowed basketball wheelchair that keeps needing repairs. It takes a chance encounter with the campus custodial staff to help Autumn realize that, no matter where she's from or how she speaks, she belongs at camp--and on the court--just as much as anyone else"--Provided by publisher.

"Vince's Tokyo Tigers take on the Chofu Dreams in the Tokyo Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. Before the tournament begins, Coach Yasuda makes Vince (who took his nickname from NBA baller Vince Carter) an offer to join the Dreams, a much superior team to the Tigers. Meanwhile, Nomiya's plan for redemption gets a setback, and the Tigers get a new addition, a grieving young man named Ryo Mizushima who misses his friends." -- website Comic Book Bin.

"Takahashi has an awkward reunion with his father, who has been absent from his life for the past eight years. As father and son struggle with the difficulties of Takahashi's adjustment to life in a wheelchair, they must also come face to face with how much damage was done to Takahashi as a young boy facing the reality of growing up in a broken home." -- from publisher's web site.

Paraplegic and basketball enthusiast Hisanobu Takahashi tries to cope with his demanding physical therapy and the reality that his life is no longer easy.

"Meet Kiyohiko Togawa, a hard-edged, no nonsense wheelchair basketball athlete with a Spartan work ethic and a keen sense of competition. Long before he ever picked up a ball, Kiyohiko was just a skinny little kid in middle school barely beginning to discover his potential to become a track star until a vicious bout with cancer cut off his track career far too soon.".

Athlete Kyoharu Togawa, chosen to compete for a spot on Japan's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, looks back over how far he has come since losing a leg to cancer.

Paraplegic and basketball enthusiast Hisanobu Takahashi tries to cope with his demanding physical therapy and the reality that his life is no longer easy.