| Description |
232 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics. In this award-winning novel, a young basketball star confronts a nightmare of racism in "one of the most thrilling climaxes in recent sports writing." |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.2 9. |
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Accelerated Reader 5.2. |
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Reading Counts! 5.5. |
| Audience |
850 Lexile. |
| Awards |
Sequoyah Young Adult Winner, 1999 |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer |
| Subject |
Basketball stories.
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Basketball stories. |
| Genre/Form |
Basketball stories.
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| Subject |
Prejudices -- Fiction.
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Prejudices. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Race relations -- Fiction.
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Race relations. |
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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African Americans. |
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Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.
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Italy -- Rome. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0590485903 |
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9780590485906 |
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0590485911 (paperback) |
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9780590485913 (paperback) |
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