Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York : 2001.
Gus enjoys basketball practice, but the noise and pace of real games bother him, until his grandpa gives him some good advice.
Hoops, by Robert Burleigh
Silver Whistle, 1997
Illustrations and poetic text describe the movement and feel of the game
of basketball.
Reading Level: 2.5; Accelerated Reader:
Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic Press, 1996
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy
basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance
to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Reading Level: 5.8
