Pick-up game : a full day of full court /
edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
- 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published in hardcover: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Step into the arena / Cage run / Next / Laws of motion / My boys / Mira mira / Wild cats / Virgins are lucky / El profesor / Practice don't make perfect / The fire inside / He's gotta have it / Back in the day / Head game / 24/7 / Just Shane / Represent / The shoot / Afterword / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Walter Dean Myers -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Bruce Brooks -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Willie Perdomo -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Sharon G. Flake -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Robert Burleigh -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Rita Williams-Garcia -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Joseph Bruchac -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Adam Rapp -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Robert Lipsyte -- Marc Aronson.
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.
9780763660680 (pbk.) 076366068X (pbk.)
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Basketball stories.
FIC PIC
Originally published in hardcover: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Step into the arena / Cage run / Next / Laws of motion / My boys / Mira mira / Wild cats / Virgins are lucky / El profesor / Practice don't make perfect / The fire inside / He's gotta have it / Back in the day / Head game / 24/7 / Just Shane / Represent / The shoot / Afterword / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Walter Dean Myers -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Bruce Brooks -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Willie Perdomo -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Sharon G. Flake -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Robert Burleigh -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Rita Williams-Garcia -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Joseph Bruchac -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Adam Rapp -- Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Robert Lipsyte -- Marc Aronson.
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.
9780763660680 (pbk.) 076366068X (pbk.)
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Basketball stories.
FIC PIC