num_pages: 176
description: Pass! Shoot! Swish! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.Its one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eightand-a-half-inch Chester. Nine of YA literatures 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 weave in and out of narratives perspectives change and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game. Crackling with humor grit and streetball philosophy and featuring poems and photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr. this anthology is a slam dunk.
language: English
title: Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
publisher: Candlewick Press