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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the early '70s, Cathy Rush became the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team had no gym or uniforms, and the school was in danger of being sold, Coach Rush steered her girls to their first national championship.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica and Quijncy taught each other how to play the game. Now, their commitment to the sport will force them to make a choice between each other and the game ... between family and team ... between Love and Basketball"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The sports pages trumpet the exploits of the superstar players of the New York Flyers basketball team -- while the gossip columns hint of their infidelities and steamy off-court activities. And in the shadows behind the bright spotlights, the wives and girlfriends struggle to keep the insanity at bay and their relationships alive in a world of fame, big money, shady dealings, and easy sex. Now, with the playoffs looming and the team's future in jeopardy,...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the past and future of women's basketball and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray, Dawn Staley, Kate Starbird, and Sheryl Swoopes.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Devon starred for Georgetown Basketball back in college-until she injured her knee, married her coach, and found a new career calling games on the radio. Twenty years later, Ruth and her now-ex-husband, Lester, are two of the most famous faces in sports media. When Lester decides to retire from the announcers' booth, Ruth goes after his job. If she gets it, she will be the first woman to call NBA games on national television. For now, Ruth is...
15) Basketball
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Covers the history, rules, fundamentals and significant personalities of the sport of women's basketball. Topics include: techniques, strategies, competitive events, and equipment. Glossary, additional resources and index included"--Provided by publisher.
18) WNBA superstars
Author
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Contains profiles of WNBA players."--
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76...
