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Title
Playing without the ball : a novel in four quarters / Rich Wallace.
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.
Description
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Indexed In:
Publisher's Weekly 08/21/2000
Booklist 10/01/2000
School Library Journal 10/2000
Horn Book Review 11/2000
Book Report 03/2001
Voice of Youth Advocate 10/2000
Summary
Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.
Audience
8-12
4.10
Lexile value, 680 Metametrics
Study Program
Accelerated Reader AR-ATOS RL 4.1 7.0 PHS PCMS
Reading Counts RC RL 5.1 12.0 22594
Subject
Basketball -- Fiction.
Family problems -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
ISBN
0679886729
