Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Sports -- Basketball Fiction
Game
Myers, Walter Dean,
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then prof...
The Perfect Shot
Alphin, Elaine Marie.
Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a ...
Front and Center
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
Other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certa...
Boost
Mackel, Kathryn,
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when s...
Night Hoops
Deuker, Carl.
While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team...
Rucker Park Setup
Volponi, Paul.
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mac...
Ball Don't Lie
Pe�a, Matt de la.
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angele...
Slam!
Myers, Walter Dean,
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him...
The Final Four
Volponi, Paul.
Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tour...
Boy21
Quick, Matthew,
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity bask...
Last Shot
Feinstein, John.
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan are sent to cover the ...
Edenville Owls
Parker, Robert B.,
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself...
The Pick-Up Game
Aronson, Marc.
A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bru...
Girl Got Game
Seino, Shizuru.
Kyo Aizawa is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal teenage life, but her father, who used ...
The crossover
Alexander, Kwame.
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the c...
Rebound
Alexander, Kwame, author; illustrations by Dawud Anyabwile.
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he di...