Living Through The Hoop

Author : Reuben A. Buford May
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081479596X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Through the Hoop written by Reuben A. Buford May and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the lives and hopes of the players on Georgia's Northeast High School Knights' basketball team, discussing the important role of the sport in their lives along with such issues as race, masculinity, and sportsmanship.

Author : Kirsty Neale
Publisher : David and Charles
ISBN 13 : 1446361578
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop-La! written by Kirsty Neale and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brimming with inspiring and creative uses for the humble embroidery hoop . . . The projects are modern, fresh, and on trend.” —A Spoonful of Sugar There are endless practical and decorative uses for the embroidery hoop: from pretty wall art and hanging mobiles to functional pin boards, key racks, mirrors and storage. Kirsty Neale explores the numerous different ways to decorate your hoops with a range of techniques including applique, embroidery, crochet, papercraft, painting, stamping, cross stitch and patchwork. The one hundred projects offer a diverse range of ideas for using everything in your craft stash to create unique items for yourself or your friends and family, for every room of your home and for any occasion! “The designs range from simple to detailed, and from stylish to incredibly cute . . . There’s a really great mix of projects in this book! The designs themselves are lots of fun, and the techniques and ideas can also be easily adapted to make your own embroidery hoop projects.” —Bugs and Fishes “Wonderfully photographed and delightfully colorful . . . each [idea] is so inspired and delightful.” —Feeling Stitchy “So many projects! . . . a great book for someone who likes to dabble in a variety of techniques . . . and use for crafternoons with your favorite people.” —Gnome Angel

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0553512129
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoops written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Ember. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults New Bonus Content: -Q&A with Walter Dean Myers -Q&A with screenwriter John Ballard -Teaser chapter from On a Clear Day -Excerpt from 145th Street All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance—but sold out. As the tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want Cal to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. As the last seconds of the game tick away, Lonnie and Cal must make a decision. Are they willing to blow the chance of a lifetime?

Author : Ben Joravsky
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060976896
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop Dreams written by Ben Joravsky and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-02-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and -- whittled down to three hours -- it became the award-winning film Hoop Dreams. Now journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to light all the richness and subtlety of their stories, and the impact their aspirations had on themselves, their families and their relationships. It is an intimate look, complete with an up-to-date epilogue on the latest developments in their lives.

Author : John Coy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584301783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strong to the Hoop written by John Coy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old James tries to hold his own and prove himself on the basketball court when the older boys finally ask him to join them in a game. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Paul Volponi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538139286
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Streetball Is Life written by Paul Volponi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning young adult author Paul Volponi comes the true story of his unforgettable summer spent proving himself as a legitimate New York City streetballer, only later discovering that he had gained a set of skills that would enhance his life off the court, as well. During the sweltering summer of seventeen-year-old Paul Volponi’s life, he had only one goal—he wanted, no, needed to become a legitimate and respected New York City street basketball player. It was a passion that consumed him night and day, and at times even isolated him from his friends and family. So he entered through the gates of the Proving Ground, the roughest streetball yard in the city. It was a place where the fouls resembled felonies, and the atmosphere mirrored that of the Roman Coliseum more than Madison Square Garden. It was where teens and adults contested pickup games with a ferocity seemingly greater than that of the NBA Finals. The Proving Ground was a difficult place to cultivate friendships and an easy environment to make enemies. This is the story of Paul’s summer-long initiation at the Proving Ground. It is truly a streetball testament of a teenager who wanted more than anything else to earn his stripes in streetball society. Only what he didn’t understand at the time was that this experience would deliver to him, as it does today for so many young adults, a set of skills that would enhance his life far beyond the boundaries of a basketball court.

Author : Scott Blumenthal
Publisher : Scobre Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974169569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop City written by Scott Blumenthal and published by Scobre Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Tony Hope, a fictional basketball player and his brother working toward reaching the NBA.

Author : Brian Doyle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351709
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop written by Brian Doyle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like baseball and golf and cricket and surfing have . . . Where are the great basketball novels to rival The Natural and the glorious Mark Harris baseball quartet and the great Bernard Darwin’s golf stories? Where are the annual anthologies of terrific basketball essays? How can a game full of such wit and creativity and magic not spark more great books?" “‘Why don’t you write one?’ said my dad, who is great at cutting politely to the chase." And so he has. In this collection of short essays, Brian Doyle presents a compelling account of a life lived playing, watching, loving, and coaching basketball. He recounts his passion for the gyms, the playgrounds, the sounds and scents, the camaraderie, the fierce competition, the anticipation and exhaustion, and even some of the injuries.

Author : Charles R. Smith
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536237116
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop Queens 2 written by Charles R. Smith and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles R. Smith Jr. brings his high-energy verse to praise a new generation of WNBA basketball stars, paired with dynamic photos of the players in action. Are your moves as smooth as A’ja Wilson’s? Do you make the game look effortless like Sue Bird? Are you a complete player like Candace Parker? A scoring machine like Diana Taurasi? Whether it’s the towering Brittney Griner, or Elena Delle Donne doing her thing, or Breanna Stewart with her big bag of tricks, Charles R. Smith’s indomitable wordplay revels in the superb talents of thirteen of the best female players in basketball. Matched with kinetic, stylized photos of the players, these upbeat poems capture the elite agility and skills the professionals bring to the game. End notes delve into how the author uses a variety of poetic forms and language to spotlight each athlete. Featuring the players: Sue Bird Liz Cambage Elena Delle Donne Skylar Diggins-Smith Brittney Griner Jonquel Jones Nneka & Chiney Ogwumike
Candace Parker Breanna Stewart Diana Taurasi Courtney Vandersloot A’Ja Wilson

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618257751
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop Roots written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, this book tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play.