Pick-Up Game
A Full Day of Full Court
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2012
Summary
Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories… . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite — no, demand — a straight read-through. — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780763660680 |
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| ISBN-10: | 076366068X |
| Author: | Marc Aronson, Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 167g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 140mm x 211mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
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)
Marc Aronson
About the Authors
Marc Aronson is an editor and author of many award-winning books for young people, including War Is… . Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War (coedited with Patty Campbell) and Sugar Changed the World (cowritten with Marina Budhos). He lives in New Jersey.
Charles R. Smith, Jr. is the author and photographer of Winning Words: Sports Stories and Photographs and the author of Hoop Queens, Hoop Kings, Chameleon, and Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali, which received a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor. He won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his photographs illustrating Langston Hughes’s My People. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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