Fast Break To Line Break

Author : Todd Davis
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781609173166

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Fast Break to Line Break by Todd Davis Pdf

If baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball’s movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of language, the body, and human connectedness; how their love of the sport made a difference in the creation of their poems and in the lives they live beyond the margins. Walt Whitman saw the origins of poetry as communal, oral myth making. The same could be said of basketball, which is the beating heart of so many neighborhoods and communities in this country and around the world. On the court and on the page, this “poetry in motion” can be a force of change and inspiration, leaving devoted fans wonderstruck.

Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399256066

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Fast Break by Mike Lupica Pdf

Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.

Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698175570

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Fast Break by Mike Lupica Pdf

From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw comes a feel-good basketball tale reminiscent of The Blind Side. Forced to live on his own after his mom dies and her boyfriend abandons him, 12-year-old Jayson does whatever it takes to get by. He will do anything to avoid the foster care system. Besides, his real home has always been the beat-up basketball court behind the projects in the North Carolina hills, and his family has always been his friends and teammates. He manages to get away with his deception until the day he gets caught stealing a new pair of basketball sneakers. Game over. Within a day a social worker places him with a family from the other side of town, the Lawtons. New home, new school, new teammates. Jayson, at first, is combatative, testing the Lawtons' patience at every turn. He wants out, yet the Lawtons refuse to take the bait. But not everyone in Jayson's new life is so ready to trust him--and even Jayson's old friends give him a hard time now that he's attending a school full of rich kids. It's on Jayson to believe that he deserves a better life than the one he once had. The ultimate prize if he can? A trip to play in the state finals at Cameron Indoor Stadium–home to the Duke Blue Devils and launching pad to his dream of playing bigtime college ball. Getting there will be a journey that reaches far beyond the basketball court. In the tradition of uplifting stories like The Blind Side, Fast Break has all the family-friendly sports action Mike Lupica has become known and loved for. Praise for Fast Break "Eager fans will find this a slam-dunk. A must-purchase."–Booklist "Lupica's announcer-like delivery will have you breathless, on the edge of your seat, cheering."–Florida Times-Union "Fast Break is the perfect middle-grade read for fans of basketball. With so much attention to detail in each game, readers are practically with the characters on the court. Lupica has done it again."–VOYA

Author : Regina Hart
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758272027

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Fast Break by Regina Hart Pdf

It's 24/7 money, fame, and game on-and off-the court. But the real action is behind the scenes in Regina Hart's sizzling new pro b-ball series, where the stakes are everything and winning means playing for keeps. . . He's a two-time MVP and three-time championship winner. He lives to be the best. And now that he's a first-time coach, DeMarcus Guinn will lead the NBA's worst team to the top his way-or no way at all. But the team's fiery franchise owner, Jaclyn Jones, is fighting him at every turn. And their unexpectedly seductive one-on-one is the kind of game time he can't resist. . . Turning her family's team into winners is Jaclyn's only hope of saving them and her community. She's used to being in control, but DeMarcus' determination-and the way he makes her feel-are like no moves she's ever seen. And with everything they care about on the line, they'll have to play to win . . . or lose their hearts.

Author : Michael Coldwell
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781552776728

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Fast Break by Michael Coldwell Pdf

Jeff is not impressed when his family moves from Toronto to small-town Nova Scotia. He doesn't know anyone and there isn't much to do--until he joins his new school's basketball team. Jeff is fast on the court and has a sharp jump shot, and soon he's hanging out with with his new teammates. Some of them are pretty rough, though, and when they start picking on other kids Jeff feels that he should step up and say something. He soon learns that he can't solve every problem with fast moves on the court. Fast Break shows how the challenges of sport equip us for the challenges of life. [Fry Reading Level - 3.9

Author : Derek Jeter
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534436282

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Fast Break by Derek Jeter Pdf

In the sixth book in the New York Times bestselling middle grade series inspired by the life of iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter, young Derek bites off more than he can chew when he decides to enter the school talent show and try out for the basketball team. Between promising Vijay that he’ll compete in the school talent show and promising Dave that he’ll try out for the basketball team, Derek Jeter has a lot he’s trying to juggle. A commitment is a commitment, and Derek is determined to work hard and try his best, but he worries he might be in over his head and fears he’s going to let his friends or himself down. How can Derek do it all? Inspired by Derek Jeter’s childhood, Fast Break is the sixth book in Jeter Publishing’s New York Times bestselling middle grade baseball series that focuses on key life lessons from Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation.

Author : Charles R. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0525464549

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Short Takes by Charles R. Smith (Jr.) Pdf

In Smith's third volume in an award-winning homage to street-court basketball, 12 poems are delivered in short, quick lines that twist and streak and dribble their way downcourt, finally slam dunking their verses with amazing dexterity. Full-color photos.

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780812968873

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Poetry 180 by Billy Collins Pdf

A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.

Author : Hans Sanne
Publisher : Hans Sanne
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9789187399084

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Basketball Fast Break Drills by Hans Sanne Pdf

This is the 6:th Basketball Drill book covering Fast Break Drills.

Author : United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Basketball
ISBN : PSU:000004835110

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Basketball by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics Pdf

Author : Mickey Minner
Publisher : P.D. Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lesbians
ISBN : 1933720409

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Fast Break by Mickey Minner Pdf

Women's professional basketball is one of the hardest games to break into, and being accepted for tryout camp is a huge achievement. Coaching a professional team is a full-time occupation with no time for a personal life. Patricia Calvin, in her second year as head coach of the Missoula Cougars, is building just the right combination of players to take her team all the way to the championship. Recently graduated from college, Sherry Gallagher is hoping to join the roster of a professional team to begin a career in the game she loves. Neither woman is looking for a relationship. So when this player and coach discover they have feelings for each other there's sure to be some Fast Break action ahead.

Author : Bill Gutman,Tom Finnegan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1592570569

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Coaching Youth Basketball by Bill Gutman,Tom Finnegan Pdf

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Author : James Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political poetry
ISBN : 1931896186

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Line Break by James Scully Pdf

Line Break is the major work on poetry as social practice and a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary criticism or poetry. For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry--in theory and in practice, in how it is lived as well as in how it is written. In eight provocative essays, James Scully argues provocatively for artistic and cultural practice that actively opposes structures of power too often reinforced by intellectual activities.

Author : Ian Marshall
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780271081601

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Reading Shaver’s Creek by Ian Marshall Pdf

What does it mean to know a place? What might we learn about the world by returning to the same place year after year? What would a long-term record of such visits tell us about change and permanence and our place in the natural world? This collection explores these and related questions through a series of reflective essays and poems on Pennsylvania’s Shaver’s Creek landscape from the past decade. Collected as part of The Ecological Reflections Project—a century-long effort to observe and document changes to the natural world in the central Pennsylvanian portion of the Appalachian Forest—these pieces show how knowledge of a place comes from the information and perceptions we gather from different perspectives over time. They include Marcia Bonta’s keen observations about how humans knowingly and unknowingly affect the landscape; Scott Weidensaul’s view of the forest as a battlefield; and Katie Fallon describing the sounds of human and nonhuman life along a trail. Together, these selections create a place-based portrait of a vivid ecosystem during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions by nationally known nature writers and local experts, Reading Shaver’s Creek is a unique, complex depiction of the central Pennsylvania landscape and its ecology. We know the land and creatures of places such as Shaver’s Creek are bound to change throughout the century. This book is the first step to documenting how. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Marcia Bonta, Michael P. Branch, Todd Davis, Katie Fallon, David Gessner, Hannah Inglesby, John Lane, Carolyn Mahan, Jacy Marshall-McKelvey, Steven Rubin, David Taylor, Julianne Lutz Warren, and Scott Weidensaul.

Author : Todd Davis
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781628952575

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Winterkill by Todd Davis Pdf

In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an unflinching portrait of the cycles of birth and death in the woods and streams of Pennsylvania, while never leaving behind the tragedies and joys of the human world. Fusing narrative and lyrical impulses, in his fifth book of poetry Davis seeks to address the living world through a lens of transformation. In poems of praise and sorrow that draw upon the classical Chinese rivers-and-mountains tradition, Davis chronicles the creatures of forest and sky, of streams and lakes, moving through cycles of fecundity and lack, paying witness to the fundamental processes of the earth that offer the possibility of regeneration, even resurrection. Meditations on subjects from native brook trout to the ants that scramble up a compost pile; from a young diabetic girl burning trash in a barrel to a neighbor’s denial of global warming; from an examination of the bone structure in a rabbit’s skull to a depiction of a boy who can name every bird by its far-off song, these are poems that both celebrate and lament the perfectly imperfect world that sustains us.