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March Madness: Basketball Reads |
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Dragon hoops : From Small Steps to Great Leaps
by Gene Luen Yang
An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. By the award-winning author of American Born Chinese. Illustrations.
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Hooper
by Geoff Herbach
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
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All the things we never knew
by Liara Tamani
A seemingly idyllic romance between rising basketball stars Carli and Rex is challenged by Carli’s secret distaste for the game, her parents’ crumbling marriage and a lack of family affection that causes Rex to doubt himself. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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After the shot drops
by Randy Ribay
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
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The crossover
by Kwame Alexander
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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The turnover
by Mike Lupica
Thrilled when his legendary coach grandfather comes out of retirement for Lucas’ basketball season, Lucas chooses his grandfather as a role model for a biography assignment only to discover other truths about his grandfather’s nature. By the best-selling author of the Home Team series. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Here to stay
by Sara Farizan
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
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Pippa Park raises her game
by Erin Yun
Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. So when she gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself. At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, a crush, and the pressure to perform at school while keeping her past and her family’s laundromat a secret from her elite classmates. When social media threatens Pippa’s persona, she wonders if she can keep it together.
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Pick-up game : a full day of full court
by Marc Aronson
A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.
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Slam dunk
by Takehiko Inoue
Hanamichi Sakuragi never has any luck asking out the girls at school until Haruko becomes interested in him, but he must join the basketball team in order to impress her.
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Kuroko's basketball. 1 & 2
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
When first-year student, Taiga Kagami joins the basketball team, he's surprised to learn that the plain, practically invisible boy on the team was once a member of "the Miracle Generation."
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Streetball is life : lessons earned on the asphalt
by Paul Volponi
This book is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a 17-year-old intent on becoming a legitimate NYC streetballer at the highest level. Included as part of the narrative are the important social skills learned on the basketball court, showing readers that their time spent streetballing is meaningful beyond the sport itself.
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My shot : balancing it all and standing tall
by Elena Delle Donne
The professional basketball player and 2016 Olympic gold medalist shares her inspirational story of overcoming the challenges of competitive sports through balancing hard work and the support of family.
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