Bibliograph

Pick-up game, a full day of full court, edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr

Type

Label

Pick-up game, a full day of full court, edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Pick-up game

Responsibility statement

edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr

Sub title

a full day of full court

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Cage run / Walter Dean Myers -- Laws of motion / Bruce Brooks -- Mira Mira / Willie Perdomo -- Virgins are lucky / Sharon G. Flake -- Practice don't make perfect / Robert Burleigh -- He's gotta have it / Rita Williams-Garcia -- Head game / Joseph Bruchac -- Just Shane / Adam Rapp -- The shoot / Robert Lipsyte

Target audience

juvenile

Classification