Hoops of Steel
โ Scribed by John Foley
- Book ID
- 110763631
- Publisher
- Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780738725277
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Basketball is Jackson O'Connell's life. Much more than a game, it allows him to cross barriers of class and race, and make new friends from the rival high school. Driven by his passion for hoops, he can almost forget his alcoholic father and a night of violence that tore his family apart.
Jackson's senior year is plagued by volcanic zits, girl shyness, and rumors that isolate him from most of the school. And when team politics keep him off the starting lineup of the basketball team, his hopes for a scholarship plummet like an airball. His self-confidence in tatters, Jackson makes errors on and off the court that almost cost him a friend and the girl of his dreams. With no rulebook to follow, Jackson must learn how to rebound from injustice and anger ... and start shooting from the heart.
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_An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults _ New Bonus Content: -Q&A with Walter Dean Myers -Q&A with screenwriter John Ballard -Teaser chapter from _On a Clear Day _ -Excerpt from _145th Street _ All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a ci
_An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults_ _New Bonus Content: _ -Q&A with Walter Dean Myers -Teaser chapter from _On a Clear Day _ -Excerpt from _145th Street_ All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of