Rimshots

Rimshots
Author: Charles R. Smith
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2000-04-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780140566789

The power, strength, and determination of the game of basketball are captured in striking photographs and sizzling stories, poems, and personal reflections. From frustration to humor, joy, and triumph, this streetwise look at a favorite American pastime conveys all the passion and excitement of the sport.

Rimshots

Rimshots
Author: Charles R. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1999-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780605026841

Hoop Queens 2

Hoop Queens 2
Author: Charles R. Smith
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536225347

Charles R. Smith Jr. brings his high-energy verse to praise a new generation of WNBA basketball stars, paired with dynamic photos of the players in action. Are your moves as smooth as A'ja Wilson's? Do you make the game look effortless like Sue Bird? Are you a complete player like Candace Parker? A scoring machine like Diana Taurasi? Whether it's the towering Brittney Griner, or Elena Delle Donne doing her thing, or Breanna Stewart with her big bag of tricks, Charles R. Smith's indomitable wordplay revels in the superb talents of thirteen of the best female players in basketball. Matched with kinetic, stylized photos of the players, these upbeat poems capture the elite agility and skills the professionals bring to the game. End notes delve into how the author uses a variety of poetic forms and language to spotlight each athlete. Featuring the players: Sue Bird Liz Cambage Elena Delle Donne Skylar Diggins-Smith Brittney Griner Jonquel Jones Nneka & Chiney Ogwumike Candace Parker Breanna Stewart Diana Taurasi Courtney Vandersloot A'Ja Wilson

Hoop Kings

Hoop Kings
Author: Charles R. Smith
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780763614232

A collection of twelve poems that celebrate contemporary basketball stars, including Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson, and Kobe Bryant.

Let's Play Basketball!

Let's Play Basketball!
Author: Charles R. Smith
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763616915

A basketball asks to be taken outside to play.

Jessie's Island

Jessie's Island
Author: Sheryl McFarlane
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459804724

With a long list of activities and events to attend, cousin Thomas paints a picture of city life that makes Jessie’s world seem a little dull in comparison. When her mother suggests they invite Thomas to visit their island, Jessie wonders glumly what she could possibly write in her letter that would sound as exciting as zoos, planetariums or video arcades. But as Jessie looks out over her island home, she sees a world of endless variety, from killer whales in the strait and bald eagles soaring overhead to anemones in tide pools and tiny hermit crabs on the shore. She thinks of countless days spent exploring, fishing, swimming and canoeing.

This is Your Life Cycle

This is Your Life Cycle
Author: Heather Miller
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0618724850

Explains how insects grow, describing the various stages of their life cycle.

Let's Play Baseball!

Let's Play Baseball!
Author: Charles R. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763616465

A baseball tries to talk a young boy into going outside to play by describing the throwing, catching, and hitting they can do together. 10,000 first printing.

Short Takes

Short Takes
Author: Charles R. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780525464549

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.

Miles

Miles
Author: Miles Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1990-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0671725823

Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.