Beastly basketball [Sports illustrated kids graphic novels]by Johnson, Lauren 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2015)

BTSB #: 492680 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-14   
AR: 2.8 MG Lexile: 350 GN

Genres:

Subjects: Graphic novels Basketball - Fiction Kung fu - Fiction Teamwork (Sports) - Fiction Self-confidence - Fiction

Summary: Joe joins his school's basketball team, but finds that the players are disorganized and lacking in discipline--so he sets out to use the skills he has learned in kung fu to bring the other players together as a functioning team.

Free throw fail [Jake Maddox JV]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2018)

BTSB #: 863058 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 600 F&P: R

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Basketball - Fiction Teamwork (Sports) - Fiction Self-confidence - Fiction

Summary: Jake is a top scorer on the Tyndall Tigers, in fact you might say that basketball is in his blood, but when it comes to free throws he has a problem--he gets nervous and cannot seem to make them in a game situation.

Hooper by Herbach, Geoff 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2018)

BTSB #: 440070 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.8 UG Lexile: 610 HL

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Basketball - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Adoption - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Fiction Minnesota - Fiction

Summary: For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.

Taking up space by Gerber, Alyson 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 375568 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 690

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Puberty - Fiction Basketball - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Eating customs - Fiction Eating disorders - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner. When Benny, her crush, offers to teach her how to cook and recruits her to a cooking competition she starts to stand up for herself and improve things.

We are family by James, LeBron 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2021)

BTSB #: 487781 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.3 MG

Genres: Sports Multicultural

Subjects: Basketball - Fiction Perseverance (Ethics) - Fiction Persistence - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be an afterschool basketball Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season.