Falling Short
Best friends Isaac and Marco--one athletically gifted and one academically gifted--have more in common than they realize when their goals intersect, forcing them to find a way to support each other so they don't fall short.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends, friendship [X], basketball stories, middle school students, schools, families, mexican americans, basketball [X], family life, school stories, school fiction [X], sports fiction, hispanic americans
Not Talking About You
"Khalil, a young Black boy, starts at a new school and is excited to join the basketball team--until he begins to experience and witnesses subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism among his new teammates.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: basketball [X], friendship [X], prejudices, racism, school stories, sports fiction, school fiction [X], high interest-low vocabulary books
Free Throws, Friendship, And Other Things We Fouled Up
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: basketball [X], sports, father-daughter relationship, friendship [X], jealousy, middle schools, school stories, cincinnati (ohio), sports fiction, school fiction [X]