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Title:

Pick-up game : a full day of full court / edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

170 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Basketball stories.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Aronson, Marc.
Smith, Charles R., 1969-

Contents:

Afterword / Marc Aronson. Cage run / Walter Dean Myers -- Next / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Laws of motion / Bruce Brooks -- My boys / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Mira mira / Willie Perdomo -- Wild cats / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Virgins are lucky / Sharon G. Flake -- The profesor / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Practice don't make perfect / Robert Burleigh -- The fire inside / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- He's gotta have it / Rita Williams-Garcia -- Back in the day / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Head game / Joseph Bruchac -- 24/7 / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Just Shane / Adam Rapp -- Represent / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- The shoot / Robert Lipsyte -- Afterword / Marc Aronson.

Summary:

A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.

ISBN:

0763645621 (hbk.)
9780763645625 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)659766192

LCCN:

2010038694

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

LASX353 -- CAL Community School District Library (Latimer)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)