Tim Jessell
1) Schooled
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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After the coach and principal approach Amar'e to join the school basketball team, Amar'e realizes the sport is different indoors than the street ball tournaments and he must prove to himself and his teammates he belongs on the team.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Amar'e's idol, Overtime Tanner plans the biggest streetball tournament every year. But when Overtime gets hurt during a basketball game, he can't make the arrangements in time. Amar'e and his friends help set up the tournament. On top of that, each group of Amar'e's friends wants him to play for their team and he's torn on what to do. Planning a tournament is a lot more work than playing in one. Based on the life of All-Star NBA sensation Amar'e Stoudemire,...
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Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him across a desert. Through his interactions with dogs, horses, birds, and more, Gary has been struck with the belief that animals...
4) Double team
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Scholastic Press
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English
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Eleven-year-old Amar'e Stoudemire starts competing in basketball tournaments with his two best friends, Deuce and Mike, and they are winning. After a few big wins, Amar'e starts getting attention from some of the older, more elite players in Lake Wales. Amar'e wants to elevate his game and the only way to do that is to move on.
5) Home court
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Scholastic Press
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English
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Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.
6) Slam dunk
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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When some of the older kids get on Amar'e for not being able to dunk, he sets a goal to make that happen soon. But when Amar'e's playing time is put on hold, he'll have to come to terms with all of the other things he's been neglecting.