Pick-up Game
A Full Day of Full Court
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 170 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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:
Basketball -- Teen fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Teen fiction.
African Americans -- Teen fiction.
African American teenagers -- Teen fiction.
Basketball players -- Teen fiction.
Sports -- Teen fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Teen fiction.
Basketball -- Teen fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Teen fiction.
African Americans -- Teen fiction.
African American teenagers -- Teen fiction.
Basketball players -- Teen fiction.
Sports -- Teen fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Teen fiction.
Target Audience: 720L
ISBN:
9780763645625 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TF Pick-up | Sandhills Indoors | Teen Fiction | In |