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10 best books like Shooting Stars (LeBron James): Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska, Rucker Park Setup, Spellbound, Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn, Party Girl, Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever, Sister Sister, Bang, Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within, What the World Eats

Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
AuthorMichael D'Orso
ISBN1582346232
n the tradition of Friday Night Lights, an extraordinary journey into the basketball-crazed culture of remote Arctic Alaska.

The village of Fort Yukon sits eight miles above the Arctic Circle, deep in Alaska's "bush" country. The six hundred men, women and children who live there—almost...
Rucker Park Setup
AuthorPaul Volponi
ISBN0670061301
“Wow” is all I can say after reading Rucker Park Setup by Paul Volponi. This
book really deserves 5 stars out of 5, no doubt about it. Being a person who
doesn’t like reading, Paul Volponi delivers big, as a writer, with his second
based basketball story after Black and White, showing...
Spellbound
AuthorJanet McDonald
Raven never expected to be a mother at sixteen. Is she going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects? Could be, except Raven has ambition. Still, when is she going to find the time to finish school? Then her older sister tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner...
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
AuthorLarry Colton
ISBN0446677558
In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by "counting coup" -- touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of...

COUNTING COUP

In this extraordinary work of journalism, Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow...
Party Girl
AuthorLynne Ewing
The room smells of sweat, smoke, beer, and longing.

The music pulses, the lights flash, and Kata and Ana dance. For a moment the raucous crowd is tamed, and together the two girls soar above their lives. but then the deafening applause sends the dancers crashing down to earth, back to the gang...
Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever
AuthorDon Haskins
ISBN1401307914
Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer's movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western Miners

In 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that...
Sister Sister
AuthorBabygirl Daniels
This book was lovely! Babygirl Daniels is a great author and I recommend that you read her books.

Sure as you read, you feel like Tara should stick up for herself more and you can help but think "If that was me I would..." or "Uh-uh that would never fly with me" but in the end, things work out fine and...
Bang
AuthorNorah McClintock
Quentin and JD have been friends forever. Even after JD gets in trouble Quentin stands by him. Hanging out together Quentin learns JD has a gun and when they are caught in a robbery JD uses the gun--with deadly results. Trying to cover up the crime and escape detection, Quentin gets in even deeper than he...
Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within
AuthorMike Lowell
ISBN0451225554
An inspiring memoir from a Red Sox hero and MVP of the 2007 World Series.

In 2007, Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell triumphed over a lifetime of adversity when he led the world’s most zealously followed baseball team to the promised land, with their second World Series title in four years....
What the World Eats
AuthorFaith D'Aluisio
ISBN1582462461
Sitting down to a daily family meal has long been a tradition for billions of people. But in every corner of the world this age-old custom is rapidly changing. From increased trade between countries to the expansion of global food corporations like Kraft and Nestlé, current events are having a tremendous...
Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul
AuthorBill Reynolds
ISBN0312134916
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall River, Massachusetts, is a once-prosperous industrial center haunted by its history, the Durfee High School basketball team begins its annual...
The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
AuthorPete Axthelm
ISBN0803259344
Axthelm was a columnist who covered sports in the Big Apple during the prime of the Knicks’ great teams in the late 60’s/early 70’s. This book is a documentary look at the team that captured the NBA championship at the end of the 1969-1970 season. Axthelm spends individual chapters describing...
King James: Believe the Hype---The LeBron James Story
AuthorRyan Jones
ISBN0312349920
LeBron James is a six-foot-eight gift from the basketball heavens. He was the undisputed finest high school player in America. He was the one NBA scouts drooled over, corporations dreamed of, event promoters begged for, and now fans clamor after. Never before had a high school basketball player been...
Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four
AuthorJohn Feinstein
ISBN0316014257
This was neither John Feinstein's best work, nor the best writing on the world of college hoops. However, though I'm terribly behind on reviewing bigger and better books, with less than two weeks left before this year's Last Dance, I wanted to give this a whirl before the window of relevance closes.
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The Whore of Akron: One Man's Search for the Soul of LeBron James
AuthorScott Raab
ISBN0062066366
After 52 long years, the city of Cleveland finally has a new championship team, thanks to LeBron James and his Cavaliers. Scott Raab—Cleveland super-fan—has suffered for every one of those five decades of drought. In the tradition of Frederick Exley’s cult-classic sports book A Fan’s Notes,...
Life on the Run
AuthorBill Bradley
ISBN0679762086
Almost two decades after its original publication and more than fifteen years after its author retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, Bill Bradley's account of twenty days in a pro basketball season remains a classic in the literature of sports, unparalleled in its candor...
It's Only a Game
AuthorTerry Bradshaw
ISBN0743417291
He's a man who knows the importance of hard work -- and he's living proof that it pays off. TERRY BRADSHAW
IT'S ONLY A GAME
This is the absolutely guaranteed 100% mostly true story of the man who gained sports immortality as the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls -- and who became America's...
The Outside Shot
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0440967848
When Lonnie Jackson leaves Harlem for a basketball scholarship to a midwestern college, he know he must keep his head straight and his record clean. That's the only way he'll have a chance of making it to the pros someday.



But his street smarts haven't prepared him for the pressures...
I've Never Met an Idiot on the River: Reflections on Family, Photography, and Fly-Fishing
AuthorHenry Winkler
ISBN1608870200
In this delightful collection of humorous anecdotes and heartfelt observations, Henry Winkler shares the joy and wisdom he’s accumulated while honing his skills as a fly fisherman. A accomplished sportsman who meticulously records the measurements of every fish he hooks, Winkler has learned...
Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era
AuthorGary M. Pomerantz
ISBN1400051614
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

As historic and revolutionary as the...
Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman
AuthorZac Unger
ISBN0143034952
Zac Unger didn’t feel like much of a fireman at first. Most of his fellow recruits seemed to have planned for the job all their lives; he was an Ivy League grad responding to an ad at a bus stop. He couldn’t keep his boots shined, and he looked terrible in his uniform. Working Fire is the story of how, from...
Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame
AuthorZe'ev Chafets
ISBN1596915455
The first book to draw back the veil on the Hall of Fame, combining an insider’s history of the Hall and its players with a consideration of baseball’s place in culture. The National Baseball H all of Fame is the holiest institution in American sports. It’s not just a place to...
Mary Tudor: Courageous Queen or Bloody Mary?
AuthorJane Buchanan
ISBN0531125955
Her parents split up during one of the messiest divorces in history. Her father disowned her. Her half-brother took her crown and attacked her religious faith.

But this sad little girl grew up to be the first ruling queen of England. And when she took over, she ruled with a vengeance.

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