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• Slam Dunk!

  Robinson, Sharon, 1950-

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• Planet Middle School

  Grimes, Nikki

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• Hoop Kings

  Poems

  Smith, Charles R., 1969-

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• Ghost

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential

• Heartbeat

  Creech, Sharon

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  Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.

• Wild Bird

  Van Draanen, Wendelin,

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  In her most incisive and insightful book yet, Wendelin Van Draanen, award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped, offers a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom, but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Garvey's Choice

  Grimes, Nikki,

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  Preferring science and reading to the sports his father wants him to play, Garvey comforts himself with food and endures bullying before joining the school chorus, where he learns how to accept himself and bond with his father.

• Athlete Vs. Mathlete

  Mack, W. C., 1972-

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  When their two worlds collide in seventh grade, fraternal twins and opposites Owen and Russell find themselves in direct competition at school, on the court, and at home.

• Last Shot

  a Final Four Mystery

  Feinstein, John

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  After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

• Love That Dog

  Creech, Sharon

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  A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, and an appearance at his school by Walter Dean Myers, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

• Game

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

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  If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to…Read moreRead more of this annotation