Pick-up game
Subtitle: a full day of full court
By: edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Somerville, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780763645625
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Basketball; Basketball stories; Juvenile fiction; African Americans; Fiction
Description: A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.
Notes: Young Adult
Table of contents: title: Step into the arena  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Cage run  -- Walter Dean Myers; title: Next  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Laws of motion  -- Bruce Brooks; title: My boys  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Mira mira  -- Willie Perdomo; title: Wild cats  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Virgins are lucky  -- Sharon G. Flake; title: El profesor  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Practice don't make perfect  -- Robert Burleigh; title: The fire inside  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: He's gotta have it  -- Rita Williams-Garcia; title: Back in the day  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Head game  -- Joseph Bruchac; title: 24/7  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: Just Shane  -- Adam Rapp; title: Represent  -- Charles R. Smith, Jr.; title: The shoot  -- Robert Lipsyte; title: Afterword -- Marc Aronson.