Pick-up game : a full day of full court / edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.
Contributor(s): Aronson, Marc [Editor] | Smith, Charles R [Editor].
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TextPublisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012Edition: 1st pbk. ed.Description: 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780763660680 (pbk.); 076366068X (pbk.).Subject(s): Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Basketball stories.DDC classification: FIC PIC | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published in hardcover: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Step into the arena / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- 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 -- El 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.
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.
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