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Basketball Fiction Basketball Juvenile fiction Basketball stories Demonology Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile fiction Jansen, Cam (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Nura, Rikuo (Fictitious character) Comic books, strips, etc Fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Spy stories Supernatural Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile fiction Women detectives England FictionFeinstein, John.
Summary: After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FEIButler, Caron
Summary: After the death of his friend, Tony must work to make the basketball team, but when he gets the chance to join the squad as statistician, he must grapple with honoring the memory of his basketball-loving friend while also trying to fit in on the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUTYee, Lisa
Summary: After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEEPacton, Jamie
Summary: "Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PACBattle, Craig
Summary: "It's summertime again, and we join the 12-year-olds of Camp Average--er, Avalon--as the season is winding to a close. Last year, our favourite junior campers (including Andre, Mack, Nelson, and Miles) won the big baseball tournament, so this year, the camp has established a special competitive stream for elite athletes. Camp director Winston even opened up space for girls--so Makayla, Nicole...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BATPonti, James
Summary: "After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION KORChristopher, Matt
Summary: Julian feels a lot of pressure when he realizes he's the only remaining player from last year's winning team, but a friend's health crisis helps him regain perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of Abdo 2019
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Summary: A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys -- she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction FinkbeinerRyan, Jennifer
Summary: After serving time for a crime she didn't commit, Evangeline returns home to a cold welcome. Her mother blames her for her father's death, and her brothers want her out of their way. When Evangeline learns she's solely responsible for their failing ranch, putting her family's future squarely on her shoulders, she'll have to find a creative way to save their home before they lose it all. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ryan 2019Martin, George R. R.
Summary: A squire named Dunk picks up the sword and shield of his dead master and enters a tournament to begin his career as a knight. But "Ser Duncan" has much to learn about this world of knights and nobles, and as he attempts to find a sponsor who will allow him to enter the tournament, he makes friends and enemies readily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dabel Bros. 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARBible, Michael
Summary: "Reverend Maloney isn't the world's greatest spiritual advisor. He drinks gin out of his coffee cup and has sex dreams about the Holy Ghost. His best friend Eli isn't perfect either, but he's a chess genius, so Maloney sees an opportunity in traveling around the country so Eli can win major chess tournament after chess tournament (while Maloney pockets Eli's winnings). Chased by a blind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIBUsdin, Carly
Summary: "THE FINAL SHOT. Everything's happening - Liv & Charlie figuring out what it means to be Liv & Charlie, the final game of the season is here, creating the perfect fundraiser and everyone's parents showed up to cheer them on during the most stressful time the team could imagine. It's Just A Lot For Everyone To Deal With. Luckily the entire existence of the league doesn't depend on this one game...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 USDGoddard, Robert
Summary: July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended in failure -- and his own death. The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODThayne, RaeAnne
Summary: "Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation. To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she's passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn't come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope's Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury-- and a damaging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THAAdler, David A.
Summary: Supersleuth Cam Jansen solves three mysteries during her class's Sports and Good Nutrition Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEOPedican, Jawara
Summary: "Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. He’s been pushed relentlessly by the obsessive mentorship of his older brother, which has been tolerated by his hard-working single mother. For years his brother has taken him to tournaments and pushed him to succeed on the outdoor courts of the west end....
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC PEDShiibashi, Hiroshi
Summary: YA. Graphic Novel. Reads R to L (Japanese Style). While the day belongs to humans, the night belongs to yokai, supernatural creatures that thrive on human fear. Caught between these worlds is Rikuo Nura. He's three-quarters human, but his grandfather is none other than Nurarihyon, the supreme commander of the Nura clan, apowerful yokai consortium. So, Rikuo is an ordinary teenager three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NURLupica, Mike.
Summary: After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LUPMantell, Paul.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CHRShiibashi, Hiroshi
Summary: Relates how Rikuo's grandfather, Nurahihyon, once sacrificed nearly everything for Yo-Hime, the woman he loved, in the early 1600s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NURSalesses, Matthew
Summary: "When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it "The Wonder"--much to Won's chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won's teammate and the captain. Covering it all is sportswriter Robert Sung, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2023