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Designed
by Kan Li
Winner 2000/01
LHS Library
Bookmark Contest
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Lawrence
High School Library
Lawrence, Kansas
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Basketball
Including
books on Kansas Basketball |
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Coa |
Coach
: 25 Writers Reflect On People Who Made a Difference.
1st ed. New York : Warner Books, 2005. Twenty-five writers
profile the athletic coaches who influenced them as mentors.
Includes memories of a grade-school coach, a basketball coach,
a gym teacher, and a wrestling coach. Reflects on the lessons
learned and how coaches helped the writers to realize their
potential in life. |
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| 796.32
Woo |
Woodling,
Chuck. Against All Odds : How Kansas
Won the 1988 NCAA Championship. Lawrence, Kansas :
Lawrence Journal-World, 1988. |
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| 796.323
Abd |
Abdul-Jabbar,
Kareem, 1947-. A Season On the Reservation
: My
Soujourn With the White Mountain Apaches. 1st ed. New
York: W. Morrow and Co., c2000. Follows the season Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar spent coaching high school basketball on an Apache
reservation, where he learned more about race in America and
the joy of basketball. |
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796.323
BLA
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Blais,
Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope is a
Muscle. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press,
c1995. Chronicles one basketball season of a girls' high school
team in Amherst, Massachusetts. |
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| 796.323
Col |
Colton,
Larry. Counting Coup : A True Story
of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn. New
York : Warner Books, c2000. Examines life on a Montana Crow
Indian reservation by introducing Sharon LaForge and her determination
to overcome an underprivileged childhood, succeed in basketball,
and learn from her ancestors' past sins. |
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| 796.323
Laz |
Lazenby,
Roland. The Show : The Inside Story
of the Spectacular
Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived It.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2006. Describes the Los Angeles Lakers
basketball team focusing on its beginnings in Detroit and
Minneapolis up to its present day location in Los Angeles.
Includes material from over 500 interviews with players, coaches,
and other key figures who offer perspectives on the history,
development, and championships of the team. |
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| 796.6
Han |
Hancock,
Bill. Riding With the Blue Moth.
Champaign, IL : Sports Publishing, c2005. After NCAA director
Bill Hancock's son dies in a plane crash which also kills
nine other members of the Oklahoma State basketball family,
he travels across America on a bicycle partly to deal with
his grief and partly to start over again. Also traveling with
Bill is an imaginary blue moth that he can never get rid of. |
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| 920
Bas |
Basketball
: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport,
Conn. :Greenwood Press, 2005. Provides biographical information
on more than five hundred basketball coaches, players, owners,
and managers since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Each entry includes specific statistics illustrating the individual's
contribution to the game. |
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Aus |
Austin,
Dan. True Fans : A Basketball Odyssey.
Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, c2005. Describes Dan Austin's
bicycle journey with his brother Jared and friend Clint Ewell
from Venice Beach, California, to the NBA Hall of Fame in
Springfield, Massachusetts. Documents their 100-day basketball
pilgrimage and their adventures along the way, including gathering
signatures on a Hero's Ball that they,wanted to be part of
the permanent collection in the Hall of Fame. |
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Kni |
Knight,
Bobby. Knight : My Story. New
York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2002. Bobby Knight tells his own
story focusing on his basketball career as a player, coach,
marriage to a former basketball coach, his firing as the Indiana
coach, and much more |
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B Nai |
Webb,
Bernice Larson. The Basketball Man,
James Naismith.
Revised edition. Lawrence : Kappelman's Historic Collections,
1994. |
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VAL |
Valvano,
Bob. The Gifts of Jimmy V : A Coach's
Legacy. Chicago,
IL : Triumph Books, c2001. Chronicles the life of Jim Valvano,
discussing his years as an NCAA basketball coach, his personal
relationships, the impact he had on the lives of those he
met, and his final battle with cancer. |
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Ave |
Averett,
Edward, 1951-. The Rhyming Season.
New York : Clarion
Books, c2005. A senior basketball-player shoulders the hopes
of a dying mill town and her bereaved family when she and
an eccentric English teacher-coach try to lead their team
to state basketball history. |
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Bro |
Brooks,
Bruce. The Moves Make the Man : A Novel.
1st ed. New
York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, c1984. A black boy and an emotionally
troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship. |
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Deu |
Deuker,
Carl. Night Hoops. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin, 2000. While trying to prove that he is good enough
to play on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick
must also deal with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior
of a troubled classmate who lives across the street. |
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Dev |
Deuker,
Carl. On the Devil's Court. New
York: Avon, 1988. Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy
and his failure to make the basketball team in his new school,
seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade
his soul for one perfect season of basketball. |
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Pena,
Matt de la. Ball Don't Lie. New
York : Delacorte Press, 2005. Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives
to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in
Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware
of the many dangers, including his own past, that threaten
his dream. |
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SWE |
Sweeney,
Joyce. Players. 1st ed. [Delray
Beach], Fla. : Winslow Press, 2000. Eighteen-year-old Corey
sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship
when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing,
friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil. |
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| Basketball
Websites |
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Basketball
Hall of Fame
http://www.hoophall.com/history/history.htm
"The game of basketball began in 1891. There are few
sports that have a greater or richer history. The Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's mission preserves and promotes
the game at all levels and serves as basketball's ultimate
library of history. " |
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CNN/Sports
Illustrated Basketball
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/
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Kansas
Basketball: the Official Website
http://kuathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/kan-m-baskbl-body.html
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NCAA:
The official Website for NCAA sports
http://www.ncaasports.com/
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USA
Basketball
http://www.usabasketball.com/
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 Registered
School Librarian Web Page |
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