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Gift Guide: Basketballers

For the ballers who love to jump & slam-dunk, check out our full curated collection of books about basketball.

Picture Books

Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant

Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball by John Coy

More Than Just a Game: The Black Origins of Basketball by Madison Moore

Goodnight Basketball (Sports Illustrated Kids Bedtime Books) by Michael Dahl

Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Suzanne Slade

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Kindergarten to 1st Grade

Tune Squad (Little Golden Books: Space Jam A New Legacy) by Golden Books

Michael Jordan (Baby Ballers) by Bernadette Baillie

Pass the Ball, Mo! (Mo Jackson #3) by David A Adler

I Got Next by Daria Peoples-Riley

Little Basketball (Little Sports) by Brad Herzog

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2nd to 3rd Grade

Michael Jordan (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Half-Court Hero (The Zach & Zoe Mysteries #2) by Mike Lupica

EllRay Jakes Stands Tall (EllRay Jakes #9) by Sally Warner

Hooray! My Butt Left the Bench! (Here's Hank #10) by Henry Winkler

Allie's Basketball Dream by Barbara E Barber

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4th to 5th Grade

Crossover (Crossover Graphic Novel) by Kwame Alexander

Chasing the Dream Set (Zayd Saleem #1-#3) by Hena Khan

Pippa Park Raises Her Game by Erin Yun

Bouncing Back by Scott Ostler

We Are Family by Lebron James

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