Ball Boy
Ball Boy
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free UK delivery over £5
- 10% off preloved books when you join +Plus
- Buying preloved emits 46% less CO2 than new
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!
Ball Boy by Paul Shirley
Gray Taylor wants to be remarkable but isn't. Gray gets the chance to change this when his mother moves him from Los Angeles to the dying Kansas town of Beaudelaire, where Gray finds basketball. Gray uses basketball to become someone people notice. And later to save Beaudelaire from itself.
Ball Boy is The Karate Kid meets Hoosiers meets The Shortstop from Tokyo. It's a book about growing up, about the importance of community, and about the power of finding the thing that makes you feel special.
Paul Shirley has played for eleven professional basketball teams in the six years since he graduated from Iowa State University, where he was an engineering major and an academic All-American. While with the Phoenix Suns in 2005, he blogged about his experiences with the team on NBA's website. When not trying to catch on with yet another pro club, Shirley authors a column for ESPN called My So-Called Career, and he has even co-written and produced a television pilot based on his life in basketball.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780578800356 |
| ISBN 10 | 0578800357 |
| Title | Ball Boy |
| Author | Paul Shirley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fourth Bar Books |
| Year published | 2021-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |