Hoop Queens (Sports Royalty)

by Charles R Smith (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
Series: Sports Royalty

Young basketball fans will have a hard time keeping still. . . . A great choice to energize poetry units. -- Booklist

Margo Dydek, Ticha Penicheiro, Chamique Holdsclaw . . . these are just three of the twelve women profiled in a dynamic group of poems honoring some of the best female players in professional basketball. With action photographs and kinetic lyrics illustrating each player's style, Hoop Queens will grab the attention of any kid who loves basketball -- and score a slam-dunk with teachers of poetry.

An International Reading Association Children's Choice

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

A Chicago Public Library Best Book

Back matter includes notes on the poems and an author's note.

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Young basketball fans will have a hard time keeping still. . . . A great choice to energize poetry units. -- Booklist
Charles R Smith
Charles R. Smith Jr. is the author of Hoop Queens and its companion, Hoop Kings, as well as Pick-Up Game, Chameleon, and Twelve Rounds to Glory, a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book. He is also the recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his photographs accompanying Langston Hughes's poem in My People. Charles Smith Jr. lives in New York.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780763635619
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Publication date
September 20, 2007
Series
Sports Royalty
BISAC categories
JNF042000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
JNF054020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Basketball
Library of Congress categories
Women
American poetry
Children's poetry, American
Basketball
Women basketball players
New York Public Library
Best Book For the Teen Age
Chicago Public Library
Best Book

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