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2) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
3) El crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"El fenómeno del básquetbol, Josh Bell, y su hermano gemelo, Jordan, son los reyes de la cancha, con esos crossovers inesperados que hacen llorar a los jugadores más duros. Pero cuando Jordan conoce a la nueva chica del colegio, lazos entre los gemelos se empiezan a desanudar. El baloncesto y la hermandad se entrelazan para mostrarles a Josh y Jordan que la vida no viene con un manual de jugadas y que, a veces, el asunto no es ganar."--Amazon.
Fourteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically...
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
6) SZNZ: Winter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
EP 4 out of 4 that Weezer will release in 2022, each one being themed after a season.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor,...
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones,...
12) Silver bells
Publisher
Pure Flix
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A competitive, ambitious businessman learns the true meaning of Christmas after he is sentenced to community serivice as a bell ringer for the Salvation Army for fighting with a referee at his son's basketball game.
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law, literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion, science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others.
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Contains 270 entries, written in case-study style, that highlight interesting details including how a product originated and was first marketed, how it developed commercially and how it fares today compared with its competitors and its own past history. Included are anecdotes pertaining to the famous, or infamous, marketing strategies and advertising campaigns that managed to capture the sometimes jaded viewers' attention.