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Product Identifiers

PublisherJames Lorimer & Company LTD., Publishers

ISBN-101459414594

ISBN-139781459414594

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038366884

Product Key Features

Book TitleRun and Gun

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicSports & Recreation / Basketball, Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, Social Themes / Violence

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorEric Howling

Book SeriesLorimer Sports Stories Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight4.2 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

Reviews"Howling smoothly blends basketball expertise and social diversity; this book will be a slam dunk for fans of the game." - Rated E, Excellent

Grade FromFifth Grade

Grade ToEighth Grade

SynopsisFourteen-year-old Griffin Finch attends school on scholarship and is struggling to stay on the basketball team. Griffin spends the summer playing basketball on a street court for the Running Rebels in a hardscrabble neighborhood. But a summer of fast, high-scoring play ends with Griffin running home, frightened by violence in the street. Griffin makes his school team and persuades a Running Rebels teammate to apply for a basketball scholarship. Opposing ideas of how basketball should be played emerge. How can Griffin convince Coach and the rest of his team that they need to play run-and-gun basketball to win? Can he bring together his schoolmates and his friends from Regent Park? Distributed in the U.S by Lerner Publishing Group., Fourteen-year-old Griffin Finch attends school on scholarship and is struggling to stay on the basketball team. Griffin spends the summer playing basketball on a street court for the Running Rebels in a hardscrabble neighborhood. But a summer of fast, high-scoring play ends with Griffin running home, frightened by violence in the street. Griffin makes his school team and persuades a Running Rebels teammate to apply for a basketball scholarship. Opposing ideas of how basketball should be played emerge. How can Griffin convince Coach and the rest of his team that they need to play run-and-gun basketball to win? Can he bring together his schoolmates and his friends from Regent Park?, A young teen uses basketball to find a balance between his school teammates and his friends from a disadvantaged part of town., Griffin attends school on a scholarship and is struggling to stay on the basketball team. Knowing he has to step up his game, Griffin spends the summer playing streetball in a hardscrabble neighbourhood. With better hoop skills, he makes the school team and persuades Fly, a star streetball player, to play at his school. Having Fly on the team inspires Griffin's teammates to win, but Fly and Coach don't see eye to eye. Can Griffin bring his school team and streetball friends together for a win they all deserve? Book jacket.