Basketball War

by Jonny Zucker

When their arch rivals get a new coach and an entirely new team mid season, basketball team captain Jim and his best friend Ali do some investigating that uncovers a sinister plot.

33 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Tristan Hendrickson · Rating 5 out of 5]

“We’ll be able to take over this planet.”- Coach Hunt (p.24) The book Basketball War takes place in small town where they play basketball. The book is narrated by Jonny Zucker. The main characters are Jim and Ali they had to find out mystery to prove that the other basketball team is cheating. Jim was my favorite character because he always stood up to people and wasn’t afraid of anything and he told people if something was going on. Coach Hunt was my least favorite character because he tried to be the best at everything and he cheated to win and be the best. “Remember that these disks can make you look human for only six hours.” was my favorite quote because it proved that Coach Hunt was cheating at the basketball game and was trying to be the best and win. I like the book because it was always a mystery to try and figure out what was going to happen next and it taught me to not cheat and try to win and be the best at everything.

[Timothy Boyd · Rating 3 out of 5]

the book was good i would like to read the next one if there is one because the book is about these two kids who are on a good basket ball team and there is this one team who is really bad but the jests got a new coach and a whole new team of players and they are weird because they practice in the night and when ever they get tired there coach gives them this disk and they eat it and it makes them like it was the starting of the practice.the jets team turned out to be aliens. when they put that disk in there mouth they turn into a human and the coach is a alien to.

[Nael P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was a fictional book about how aliens came to earth to conquer all sports to take over the world.it was only 33 pages though and leaves you hanging at the end so im trying to find the second.

[Martina]

i didn't like this book because it's a fantasia book. i didn't like the aliens but the only part that i like was when the enemy changed sonal trainer and the whole team.

[Amina]

Basketball War by Johnny Zucker is a short fantasy book. This book was effective because it had some fictional characters in it,

[Ezra]

The Book I read this mouth was Basketball Wars by Jonny Zucker. I think that this book was really good because it was like a mystery to find how their rivals play so good. My favorite character was Jim because he was so eager to find out what was going on with the other team. The story starts when Jim and Ail where walking around and saw their rivals practicing basketball and they saw that they had a new coach. But they were doing unusual thing that they couldn’t do before like jump higher and running faster. It was getting dark and they expected that they would be do by now but they weren’t they were still playing and Jim and Ail thought that was weird. So Jim and Ail kept on investigating them and when the day their team played them they saw that their coach was an alien and was giving his team powers.