Run and Gun (Lorimer Sports Stories)

by Eric Howling (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
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?
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Eric Howling
ERIC HOWLING is an advertising creative director and the author of nine books, including Head Hunter, Red Zone Rivals, Hoop Magic, Kayak Combat and Drive in the Lorimer Sports Stories series. His books have been shortlisted for the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award, named Resource Links Year's Best and picked as a CCBC Best Books selection. Eric lives and plays sports in Calgary, Alberta.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781459414594
Lexile Measure
640
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Lorimer Children & Teens
Publication date
September 20, 2019
Series
Lorimer Sports Stories
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV039180 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
JUV039120 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
JUV032020 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Basketball
Library of Congress categories
Fiction
Friendship
Basketball
Basketball stories
Social classes
Sports stories
School sports
Private schools
Sports fiction

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