The basket counts
By: Matt Christopher ; illustrated by Karen Meyer Swearingen
Contributors: Meyer, Karen, 1956-
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780316140768
Subjects: Basketball stories; Race relations; Basketball; African Americans; Fiction
Description: Long practice improves Mel's value as a basketball player, but he finds it difficult to surmount the prejudice of Caskie Bennett, the basketball team's star player and Mel's new neighbor.