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Author
Series
Myron Bolitar novel volume 5
Language
English
Description
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright strong, beautiful star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty years before, Brenda's mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women's pro basketball world, her father disappears too. A big time New York sports agent with a foundering love life, Myron...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play. All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the championship girls' basketball team. Mercy seems destined for greatness, but the road out of town is riddled with obstacles. There is her grandmother, Evelia, a strict evangelical who has visions of an imminent Rapture and sees herself as the keeper of Mercy's virtue. There are the cryptic letters from...
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and fall in love--a couple of times--as she fights for...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
The story of two high school seniors who must negotiate the pressures of being star athletes, the complicated terrain of their home situation, and the ambiguities of their own intense, competitive friendship.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna moves to back to Oahu, Ren's messages to her friend go unanswered. Years go by. Then Luna returns, hoping to rekindle their friendship. Ren is hesitant. She's dealing with a lot, including family troubles, dropping grades, and the newly formed women's basketball team at their high school. With Ren's new friends and Luna all on the basketball team,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hara Isari has big ambitions and she won't be sidetracked by her mother's insistence that she settle down soon. She dreams of leaving her job at a small-town newspaper to begin a career as a sports-writer. When Hara is chosen to exclusively interview a basketball superstar, she jumps at the chance. It's time to show the bigwigs what she's turly made of.
"The Wrong Mr. Darcy is a charming, multicultural, Pride and Prejudice--inspired romantic comedy...
8) Chasing Red
Author
Series
Chasing Red volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
He had everythingwealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until one chance encounter changed everything. The moment Caleb Lockhart spotted the mysterious woman in her siren red dress, he couldn't tear his eyes away. For the first time in his life, he wanted something. Something he knew he could never have. The unforgettable stranger he dubs RED.
Author
Publisher
John Foley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a series of murders baffles police in Vancouver, Washington, no one expects a high school kid to solve the mystery. But Issy O'Keefe is an amateur sleuth, thanks to her forensics class, as well as a highly intelligent young woman. Still, it's a tough time for Issy. She's a star basketball player, but her team is terrible. And since she's taller than most of the boys at school, her social life isn't the best. Helping her through this challenging...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
11) Girl got game
Author
Series
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2003]-
Language
English
Description
Kyo Aizawa is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal teenage life, but her father, who used to be a basketball player and wanted to make it to the NBA, is now determined to live his dreams through his daughter. She finds out that her father registered her as a boy and cooked up a scheme so that she would play on the boys basketball team and become the basketball player he always wanted to be.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 340L
Language
English
Description
"Jordan's days as star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed from the waist down. Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her...until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams--or will it just come between Jordan and her best friends...
