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Michael Jordan: Legends in Sports

by Matt Christopher, Stephanie True Peters, Glenn Stout

4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 · rating details · 35 ratings · 10 reviews

Matt Christopher, the number one sports writer for kids, profiles basketball superstar Michael Jordan, covering his childhood, college career, rookie years, professional career highlights, and his short stint in minor league baseball. This reissue features an update, following Jordan from his re-entry into basketball as a player for the Washington Wizards to his third and...more

Paperback, 176 pages

Published April 1st 2008 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Nov 16, 2012 Cameron Frame rated it 5 of 5 stars

Michael Jordan book review
Im not sure if its in my book readers thing but this book is great.
Part 1
- The book that I read was about Michael Jordan's life. He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. He didn't have a good life style but he made it to the NBA. Before he made it to the NBA he was cut from his high school basketball team, I'm pretty sure twice. When he was in the NBA he reached the NBA finals 6 times and won 6 rings. He became MVP 6 times. The audience is teenagers and people w...more Michael Jordan book review
Im not sure if its in my book readers thing but this book is great.
Part 1
- The book that I read was about Michael Jordan's life. He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. He didn't have a good life style but he made it to the NBA. Before he made it to the NBA he was cut from his high school basketball team, I'm pretty sure twice. When he was in the NBA he reached the NBA finals 6 times and won 6 rings. He became MVP 6 times. The audience is teenagers and people who love basketball.
Author- Matt Christopher
Title- Michael Jordan

Part 2
He got cut twice from his high school basketball team and still reached the NBA and ended up with 6 championship rings. His brother, Larry Johnson pushed him everyday until he couldn't walk. The next year he made the team and started. He went on to play college basketball and UNC and won a national championship title with them. After college basketball he went on to the NBA. He was drafted in 1984- 1985 season and I'm pretty sure by the Chicago Bulls. He played most of his career with them. After about 12 years he retired and play MLB baseball for his dad. His dad wasn't the manager but he played for him because that was his dads dream for him. He played 2 years with the white sox. Then he came back and played 4 more season with the Chicago bulls until get traded to the Washington wizards. He finally retired in 2003 for the final time. He was put into the hall of fame in 2009 or 2010.

Part 3
One highlight of this book is getting cut from the ball team
- It was a long day of school and afterwards there was basketball tryouts. You had freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors at the tryouts and it was crowed. Anyways when tryouts started Michael Jordan was standing there waiting on the sidelines for his name to be called for him to go out on the court and scrimmage against the other players. His name finally got called and he was nervous about playing as a sophomore on the varsity squad. They scrimmaged for about and hour and they tryouts were over, Michael played very well but it wasn't up to him, it was up to the coaches. They were naming people of left and right but Michaels name wasn't called. After the coaches were naming people who made the team, they told everyone else they can go home. But Michael stayed in the gym and practice everyday until next years tryouts. He was so dedicated that he would skip class and go to the gym and practice his game. And the next year he made the team and stated over a senior as a junior.

The death of his father
- His was a nice afternoon and Michael father decided that he was going to have a few drinks at the local bar. He had left and night time about 11 o'clock and he was then being followed by a group of people. He made a turn and came to a stop. He got out of a car and was shot. Michael didn't know until a few days later after his basketball game he had that day before. They sent out a search warrant and that is when they found him in the woods. Michael and his family were devastated.

College basketball and NBA
- When Michael was playing ball at the university of North Carolina on a full scholarship he was playing great. If I'm not mistaking I'm pretty sure he won the national title for his team as a FRESHMAN. I think he played all 4 years of college basketball before he got drafted by the Chicago bulls in the 1984-85 NBA draft. While he was in the NBA he became the greatest rookie of all time. If I'm not mistaking he played almost 13 years with the Chicago bulls. And about 3 or 4 years with the Washington wizards. In his career he averaged about 30 points a game. People compare Kobe Bryant to him, and I just don't see how, Kobe is garbage in my mind. But people have there own opinions.

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Why you should read this book
- the reason you should read this book is because its about the greatest player of all time, my homie Michael Jordan. The cat did everything, he was great. Cut 2 years of high school ball team and still made it to the NBA. I mean who really does that? No one but him. I recommend this book to all people who like any kind of sports. It a great and it describes his whole life until he retired from the NBA in 2003. Don't let me forget the number 6 neither. That's why LeBron James wears it. 6 stands for the number of rings Michael Jordan wore. LeBron wears 6 because that's how many rings he wants. He wants to be like or even better then Michael Jordan ever was. (less)

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Jan 13, 2013 Neel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Michael Jordan
by Matt Christopher
Non-Fiction Biography
176 pages

This book is about one of the greatest player in the history of sports. Michael Jordan, who was amazing at basketball. He is considered the greatest player ever to play basketball. Michael Jeffery Jordan was born on Febuary 17th,1963. His parents, James and Deloris were kind of poor. Michael used to love to play basketball with the hoop that his dad made. He used to practice a lot and loved to compete with his older brother.Later,Mic...more Michael Jordan
by Matt Christopher
Non-Fiction Biography
176 pages

This book is about one of the greatest player in the history of sports. Michael Jordan, who was amazing at basketball. He is considered the greatest player ever to play basketball. Michael Jeffery Jordan was born on Febuary 17th,1963. His parents, James and Deloris were kind of poor. Michael used to love to play basketball with the hoop that his dad made. He used to practice a lot and loved to compete with his older brother.Later,Michael went to North Carolina Univarsity and played basketball there. He played to the varsity team and NBA team were already noticing him. After college, he was drafted by the Chicago Bulls.They had a lot of good players,but they didn't play together as a team.After Michael came, their record kept going up. He was everywhere on the court,from shooting 3-pointers to doing a 360 dunk.Michael was know for his ability to do anything and soon he started to become famous. He soon met then married a woman named Juanita. They had 3 kids,Marcus,Jasmine and Jeffery. After a few seasons playing with the Bulls, he retired and started to play minor league baseball. After 2 seasons playing baseball,he came back to basketball. He played for the Bulls, then played to the Washington Wizard.Michael has his own brand now named Air Jordan.

I really liked this book for several reasons. First, it was because I like basketball. My favorite player is Lebron James. Actually, Michael Jordan was Lebron's role model when he was a kid. I thought this was really cool. Now, Lebron is playing really good, just like Jordan. Second, the book was amazing! The author, Matt Christopher made the book so interesting that I couldn't stop reading. For instance, while was summarizing a playoff NBA game, he made everything sound so awesome. He is like of his team mate passes the ball with 4 seconds left on the clock. Michael fakes forward and jumps up and takes the 3. SWISH! The crowd goes wild, sort of thing. Third, it was really descriptive. He explain everything. He had everything about his career, family and childhood. It tells real quotes from his coaches and players. Even really good players like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird told the media that Michael Jordan was an amazing player. It also tells the score for the playoff games he was in. I learned a lot of information about Michael that a lot of people wouldn't know like he divorced hi wife Juanita so she could take care of their kids without having to much attention and having a normal life. I think anyone who loves basketball and MJ will love this book.(less)

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Aug 21, 2011 Mekhi J. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of the greatest players in the NBA of all time. Michael Jordan so many buzzer beaters to win the game. So many nice moves to get to the basket. The most famous dunk of them all was the leap from the free throw line. Nobody ever loved the game of basketball like Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan was born In Broklyn, New York and raised in North Carolina the neighborhood that Michael grew up end was a challenge, simply of mostly white kids so nobody wanted to be his friend. But when evrybody got...more

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Dec 07, 2012 Raymond rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thought that this book was nice. It told a lot about his life. Like I finally found out why he played baseball, his dad dreamed of him playing baseball but his father passed so he left NBA and looked back. So he played baseball for a minute but came back to the NBA and got them too the Championship again. He was like the best and came up over a lot of people, came over some of the older basketball players to which made him come up top.

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Mar 10, 2011 Erica J rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Excellent read if you like Michael Jordan and you want to learn about him. The book gives you tons of information you may not have known about the sports hero. It goes beyond his professional basketball career and details his life as well. I would use it in the classroom to compare current basketball players and how their life might be different. Great read for 6th grade students.

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May 17, 2011 Kenny Kurtz rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, facts

I really liked this book because it talked about Michael Jordans childhood and how he became a professional basketball player.

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Jan 30, 2013 Stacy Oberembt rated it 4 of 5 stars

Interesting book...but lots of game, points, shots, and numbers!

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Nov 26, 2009 James rated it 5 of 5 stars

this tell about the great m.j

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May 09, 2011 Hannah rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: eveyone

Recommended to Hannah by: my mom........jk

this is a really inspiartional book that shows that jordan is the best bbal player in the history of the NBA!!!!!!!!!

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About Matt Christopher

Matt Christopher is the writer young readers turn to when they're looking for fast-paced, action-packed sports novels. He is the best-selling author of more than one hundred sports books for young readers.

Matt Christopher is America's bestselling sports writer for children, with more than 100 books and sales approaching six million copies. In 1992, Matt Christopher talked about being a children's...more Matt Christopher is the writer young readers turn to when they're looking for fast-paced, action-packed sports novels. He is the best-selling author of more than one hundred sports books for young readers.

Matt Christopher is America's bestselling sports writer for children, with more than 100 books and sales approaching six million copies. In 1992, Matt Christopher talked about being a children's book author.

"I became interested in writing when I was 14, a freshman in high school. I was selling magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and Liberty, and I would read the stories, particularly the adventure and mystery stories, and think how wonderful it would be to be able to write stories and make a living at it. I also read detective, horror, aviation, and sports stories and decided I would try writing them myself.

Determined to sell, I wrote a detective story a week for 40 weeks, finding the time to marry, work, and play baseball and basketball before I sold my first story in 1941, "The Missing Finger Points," for $50 to Detective Story magazine.

After writing and selling children's sports stories to magazines, I decided to write a baseball book for children. I was living in Syracuse, New York at the time, working at General Electric. I spoke about my idea to the branch librarian. She was immediately interested and told me that they needed sports stories badly. So I came up with my first children's book, The Lucky Baseball Bat. I submitted it to Little, Brown, and the book was published in 1954.

I'm sure that playing sandlot baseball and then semiprofessional baseball with a Class C club in the Canadian-American League influenced my writing. I had my own personal experiences, and I saw how other players reacted to plays, to teammates' and fans' remarks and innuendoes, to managers' orders, etc. All these had a great influence on my writing. My love of the game helped a lot, too, of course.

Out of all the books I've written, my favorite is The Kid Who Only Hit Homers. It's a fantasy, but the main character in it could be real. There are a lot of boys who would love to play baseball but, for some reason, cannot. The only difference between a real-life boy and Sylvester Coddmyer III is the appearance of a character named George Baruth, whom only Sylvester can see and who helps Sylvester become a good ballplayer.

I've written many short stories and books for both children and adults, and find that writing for children is really my niche. Being the eldest of nine children (seven boys and two girls), I've lived through a lot of problems many children live through, and I find these problems excellent examples to include in my books.

Sports have made it possible for me to meet many people with all sorts of life stories, on and off the field, and these are grist for this writer's mill. I'm far beyond playing age now, but I manage to go to both kids' and adult games just to keep up with them, and keep them fresh in my mind.Very few things make me happier than receiving fan letters from boys and girls who write that they had never cared for reading until they started to read my books. That is just about the ultimate in writing for children. I would never trade it for another profession."

Matt Christopher died on September 27, 1997. His legacy is now being carried on by his sons, Duane and Dale Christopher.(less)

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