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Rating:  - A Book for everyone( Jump Ball)
If you love Basketball you'll love this book, if you don't like basketball you'll love this book. Jump Ball is a book for all. This book creates real life scenarios for everyone to enjoy.You may get attached to the coach or the coaches wife or maybe one of the players or their girlfriends.
Jump Ball is about high school and Jr. high students that are trying out for basketball and the struggles that are going on behind the scenes of the basketball court. These kids eat, sleep, and drink basketball. You learn about the things they go through with their girlfriends and the things the girls go through with their boyfriends. You may just fall in love with some of the characters and the way they live their life.
If you are a Teen that loves to read on books that relate to you THIS IS THE BOOK!Jaw dropping, head turning type of book that you will want to read over and over again.I personally love this book if you take my advice you would love it too!You will not want to miss a beat of this book.
Short read and great to learn from, I suggest you read this!
Rating:  - Lives of Student Athletes
Tower High School has a very good basketball team this year, including the star, Garrett James, who is expected to become a pro after this year. That's the story the media has picked up. But anyone who has ever been on a team knows that there is a lot more to a team than one person's story. This book tells those stories. Sure, Garrett is a star, but there's also Tamba Senesie from Nigeria, who is upset that his father isn't respected here like he was in their homeland. There's Juliette Paris, who is pregnant and trying to get her basketball-playing boyfriend to take some responsibility. There's Tyrone Porter with the heart problem that may make him unable to play this year. There's Valdeen DeForest of the girls' volleyball team, who is angry that only boys' sports get credit at her school. There's Vonessa Leighton, the team manager who is madly in love with one of the guys on the team. And there are countless others.
As you read each poem in this book, you get a feel for what each of the characters are feeling about the game of basketball and the other things they have going on in their lives. Then you realize that the book is giving you snapshot views into one season of basketball, a season that ends in a shocking event.
Many books about sports simply focus on the sport itself as motivation for the characters. This book, though, shows the reader that each one of these students has a pile of other things on his or her mind--that their own lives are more important than the sport.
Rating: - Great teen fiction novel in verse
As a creative writing teacher, I am really writing a review for my 90 or so students who read and enjoyed Split Image. The teens really related to the complex character of Laura Li. It's a quick-paced story with a lot of suspense.
Rating:  - SORRY BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this book was ok but i really dident like it its kinda borring it dident really intrest me that muck but it was ok if u bord read it if u are dumb read it if u like basket ball read it but outher than that dont read it ! ok thats all !
Rating: - Good Book
Jump ball was a very good book. It keep you gussing. I like the way the poems were they would talk about one person and then they would talk about someone else. I would recamend it to other people. I would recamend it to people how like peoms and basketball. It was a good book and I liked it.
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