John Coy
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students--a bunch of energetic young men--are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting, and fast to keep the class happy--or someone's going to get hurt. Saving this class is going to take a genius. Discover the true story of how...
4) Box out
Author
Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing team wide participation.
5) Crackback
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 2
Description
Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 1
Description
Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Sixth - grader jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home, but some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
12) Dads
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Photographs and simple text present the many things that diverse fathers do, including fixing, protecting, and loving.
13) Vroomaloom zoom
Author
Description
Daddy takes Carmela on an imaginary car ride, lulling her to sleep with various sounds, from the wurgle lurgle of swamps to the hoopty doopty swoopty loopty of driving in circles.
15) Around the world
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Portrays a gritty game of street basketball, "Around the world," being played literally around the world, from New York to Australia to China, and elsewhere, and then back to New York.
16) Directo al aro
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Ten-year-old James tries to hold his own and prove himself on the basketball court when the older boys finally ask him to join them in a game.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Jackson confronts many challenges in his first year of middle school as his mother plans to get married, the best player on his basketball team leaves, he needs to ask a girl to go to a school dance with him, and his best friend's father is injured in Afghanistan.