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Pick-up game : a full day of full court
Title
Pick-up game : a full day of full court / edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.
ISBN
9780763660680
076366068X
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Published
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
Physical Description
170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab B83 Zz2011P: Paperbound. From the library of Joseph Bruchac.
Notes
Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing:12 13 14 15 16 17 BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
Originally published in hardcover: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 08, 2021
Contents
Step into the arena / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Cage run / Walter Dean Myers
Next / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Laws of motion / Bruce Brooks
My boys / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Mira mira / Willie Perdomo
Wild cats / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Virgins are lucky / Sharon G. Flake
El profesor / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Practice don't make perfect / Robert Burleigh
The fire inside / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
He's gotta have it / Rita Williams-Garcia
Back in the day / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Head game / Joseph Bruchac
24/7 / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Just Shane / Adam Rapp
Represent / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
The shoot / Robert Lipsyte
Afterword / Marc Aronson.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Basketball stories.
Young adult fiction.
Sport.
Basketball stories.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Young adult works.
Juvenile literature.
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