Full Court Fever by Fred Bowen
Michael Mancino's middle school basketball team is what you might call "vertically challenged."They have the skills, but what they lack in height has cost them the first two games of the season. So when Michael and his team meet Dikembe Obiku, a new student from Nigeria, they are sure they've found their saving grace. Dikembe is athletic and taller than most of the teachers, but there's one problem: He's never played basketball before!
Their chances of making the ultimate comeback seem impossible. That is, until Michael discovers an old issue of Sports Illustrated about the similarly "vertically challenged" UCLA Bruins who won the 1964 NCAA Championship with an aggressive and hard-to-beat full-court zone press. Can their team learn a thing or two from these Davids and take down their own Goliaths in the next game?
In the afterword, readers can learn more about the 1964 UCLA Bruins.
Bowen, Fred: - Fred Bowen is the author of Peachtree's popular Fred Bowen Sports Story series. A lifelong sports fanatic, he has coached youth league baseball, basketball, and soccer. His kids' sports column The Score appears each week in the KidsPost section of the Washington Post. Bowen lives in Maryland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781561455089 |
| ISBN 10 | 1561455083 |
| Title | Full Court Fever |
| Author | Fred Bowen |
| Series | Fred Bowen Sports Story Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peachtree Publishers,U.S. |
| Year published | 2009-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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