Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court

Contributor(s): Aronson, Marc (Editor), Smith Jr, Charles R (Editor), Smith Jr, Charles R (Illustrator), Various (Author)

ISBN: 9780763660680

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Binding Types:

Paperback

$7.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$20.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$19.74 (100+ copies: $18.99)

List/retail price:

$7.99

Pub Date: October 9, 2012

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 0720

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 14 to UP

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 8.10" L x 5.40" W ( 0.45 lbs) 176 pages

BISAC Categories:

Young Adult Fiction | Sports and Recreation | Basketball | Diversity and Multicultural | Short Stories Collections and Anthologies

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000142399 ( Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court)

Reading level: 4.30

Interest level: MG+

Point value: 5.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball. Includes stories by Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake.

Review Quotes: Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories...an anthology of standalone stories that invite - no, demand - a straight read-through.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

Tying all the stories together is a shared love and respect not only for the game itself, but also for the lavishly talented (and all-too-often fatally flawed) legends od New York City playground basketball. An outstanding collection that belongs in every high school library.
--School Library Journal (starred review)

Superb stories by writers who know and love the game; and ode to the show.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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