Basketball Fiction for Kids
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Hoop Girlz Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. (jFiction Bledsoe)
When ten-year-old River, who is crazy about basketball, is not chosen to play in the tournament set up in the town of Azalea, Oregon, she decides to organize a team of her own and accepts the help of her older brother.
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery Feinstein, John. (jFiction Feinstein)
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.
Airball: My Life in Briefs Harkrader, Lisa. (jFiction Harkrader)
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach's ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known.
Toby Wheeler, Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer Heldring, Thatcher. (jFiction Heldring)
When Toby finally decides to join the middle school basketball team, he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend JJ, who is the team's star player, as well as in other areas of his life.
Any Small Goodness: a Novel of the Barrio Johnston, Tony. (jFiction Johnston)
Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.
Wart Myers, Anna. (jFiction Myers)
Regretting his part in his father's decision not to marry the town librarian, Stewart has many misgivings about the latest woman in their lives, although her spells and charms might make Stewart popular and improve his basketball game.
Sly the Sleuth and the Sports Mysteries Napoli, Donna Jo. (jFiction Napoli)
Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of the soccer switch, the kick craze and the basketball blues.
Deadly Drive Patneaude, David.
On Whidbey Island, Washington, fourteen-year-old Casey has two goals--to become an excellent basketball player like her mother was, and to find the hit-and-run driver who injured her and killed her mother nine years earlier.
The Real Slam Dunk Richardson, Charisse K.
Ten-year-old Marcus plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream.
Slam dunk! Robinson, Sharon. (jFiction Robinson)
At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a Student Council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers
House of Sports Russo, Marisabina. (jFiction Russo)
Through a series of triumphs and tragedies at home, at school, and on the basketball court, plus time reluctantly spent with his elderly grandmother, twelve-year-old Jim Malone learns that there is a lot more to life than basketball.
Tall Tales Smith, Charles R. (jFiction Smith)
In this collection of stories illustrated with photographs, youngsters show off their smooth moves on the basketball court.
Taking Sides Soto, Gary. (jFiction Soto)
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
String Music Telander, Rick. (jFiction Telander)
An unlikely friendship develops between a lonely eleven-year-old boy and the professional basketball star whom he idolizes.
Dunk Under Pressure Wallace, Rich. (jFiction Wallace)
Free throw specialist Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player.
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time Yee, Lisa. (jFiction Yee)
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
