basketball stories

From the age of nine years Michael dreams of playing basketball for the United States in the Olympics, and with hard work and his mother's encouragement, he realizes his dream.

LC makes the basketball team and searches for his secret valentine.

Brittany Bristol has always been told she was too small and too short to play basketball, but she is determined to prove everyone wrong and become the team's star player. Includes reading comprehension and essay questions.

Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.

Lionel Shephard dreams of joining the NBA, but while his father disapproves of his plans, his teachers are threatening to fail him--unaware of his poor reading abilities--and Lionel needs to decide how far he is willing to go for his dreams.

After tryouts for the school basketball team, eighth graders Zeke, Eli, Ryan, and Miles find their friendship tested when two of them make the team and two of them do not. Includes facts about Michael Jordan and Bill Russell.

Mason and his friends are troubled when their basketball team, the Raptors, goes co-ed, even though they have a great player in Cindy; and the divisions caused by the change seem to be dooming their chances of making the national finals.

The Bayport Bombers are headed to the championship basketball game, but somebody wants to knock them out of contention by getting Frank and Joe Hardy out of the way.

The members of the Shohoku basketball squad are involved in an on-court fight with a group of thugs and Kogure stops the confrontation by reminiscing about one of their opponent's past as a star player.

Coach Anzai knows he needs to do something quick in order to retake the lead from Shohoku, but is not sure if Mitsui has enough strength left in him to hit those crucial three-pointers.