Pick-Up Game
A Full Day of Full Court
$34.23
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2011
Summary
Pass! Shoot! Swish! And 1! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.
It’s one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eightand-a-half-inch Chester. Nine of YA literature’s top writers, includin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780763645625 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0763645621 |
| Author: | Marc Aronson, Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 160mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Pick-Up Game |
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Critics Review
Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories…an anthology of standalone stories that invite - no, demand - a straight read-through.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
Tying all the stories together is a shared love and respect not only for the game itself, but also for the lavishly talented (and all-too-often fatally flawed) legends od New York City playground basketball. An outstanding collection that belongs in every high school library.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Superb stories by writers who know and love the game; and ode to the show.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About The Author
Marc Aronson
Marc Aronson is an editor and author of many award-winning books for young people, including War Is… . Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War, which he coedited with Patty Campbell, and Sugar Changed the World, which he cowrote with Marina Budhos. Marc Aronson lives in New Jersey.
Charles R. Smith, Jr., is the author and photographer of Winning Words: Sports Stories and Photographs and the author of Hoop Queens, Hoop Kings, Chameleon, and Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor. He won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrated Award for his photographs illustrating My People by Langston Hughes. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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