Pick-up Game
A Full Day of Full Court
Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · October 9, 2012
"Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . .
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- Who it’s for
- Street basketball links shifting perspectives, quick-moving stories, and a sharp mix of humor and grit.
- Themes
- Street basketball, Humor and grit, Streetball philosophy
- Pacing
- Fast
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"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.
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Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game of street basketball. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems and photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.
Stories in Motion
Street basketball links shifting perspectives, quick-moving stories, and a sharp mix of humor and grit.
Come here for
- Streetball’s humor, grit, and philosophy
- Stories that pass characters and momentum from one voice to the next
Expect
- A connected anthology with changing perspectives and emotions in play
- Poems and photographs alongside the stories
Where it sits
| YA Short Stories | 100% |
|---|---|
| Basketball | 67% |
| Diverse YA Fiction | 54% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Diverse YA Fiction
- YA Short Stories
- Basketball
- Authors
- Marc Aronson, Charles R. Smith Jr., Various
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- October 9, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Street basketball · Humor and grit · Streetball philosophy
- Reading lane
- Diverse YA Fiction