Basketball

  • Adoff, Arnold.  The Basket Counts,
  • Bennett, Blue Star Rapture
  • Brooks, Bruce. The Moves make the man.
  • Carson, John F. The coach nobody liked : a basketball story.
  • Christopher, Matt and Kidder, Harvey. Johnny Long Legs.
  • Colton, Larry.  Counting Coup: a True Story of BAsketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn.
  • Cooper, Ilene.  Choosing sides.  Jonathan doesn't want his father to think he's a quitter, but middle school basketball--under the lash of a gung-ho coach-is turning out to be anything but fun.
  • Cossi, Olga  The magic box. A high school basketball player's smoking may disqualify her from the big game.
  • Crutcher, Chris.  Chinese Handcuffs.
  • Deuker, Carl.  Night hoops. While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his
  • Deuker, Carl.  On the Devils Court
  • Deuker, Carl. Missing the Piano
  • Deuker, Carl. Painting the black.  When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Remy Ward doesn't realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle's Crown Hill High.
  • Draper, Sharon M. Tears of a tiger. The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
  • Dygard, Thomas J  Tournament upstart.  Under the leadership of their new young coach, a Class B high school basketball team from the Ozark foothills challenges big-city schools for the state championship.
  • Dygard, Thomas J.  The rebounder. Doug Fulton, coach of the Hamilton High Panthers, is certain that transfer student Chris Patton can lead the team to a championship, but a tragic accident has made Chris decide to never play basketball again.
  • Dygard, Thomas J. Outside shooter.
  • Dygard, Thomas J. Rebound caper.
  • Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems, (edited by Sue Macy)
  • Gorman, Carol. Chelsey and the Green Haired Kid.
  • Heuman, William. Backcourt man.
  • Hughes, Monica Hunter in the dark.  High school basketball star Mike Rankin embarks on a wilderness hunting trip and discovers answers to both his illness and its effect upon his life.
  • King, Tabitha.  One on One
  • Klass, David. Danger zone
  • Lelchuk, Alan.  Playing the Game
  • Marshall, Kirk  Hoops; pressure play
  • McCormick, Wilfred. The play for one : a Rocky McCune basketball story.
  • Myers, Walter Dean.  Slam
  • Myers, Walter Dean. Hoops.
  • Myers, Walter Dean. The outside shot.
  • Necessary Hunger.
  • Soto, Gary. Taking sides. Lincoln Mendoza must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white surburban neighborhood.
  • Sweeny, Joyce. Players
  • Tunis, John Roberts, Go, team, go.  When one player from the overconfident team, the previous year's champions, is expelled for gambling and the other four are penalized for breaking training, they angrily quit the basketball varsity and leave the inferior B team defending the school's record.
  • Updike, John  Rabbit at rest.  Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, an ex-basketball player, struggles to make sense out of his life and the world around him after coming to realize that his family and society have both changed.
  • Walden, Amelia Elizabeth  Go, Phillips, go
  • Wallace, Rich. Playing without the ball.
  • Weesner, Theodore.  Winning the City.

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