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Jump Shot: Ready-to-Read Level 2
Learn all about basketball in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series that gives fans an insider look at their favorite sports!
This book is perfect for young, sports-obsessed fans who, in addition to watching and playing sports, crave the kind of expert knowledge that only an insider would know.
It’s game day, and a basketball referee arrives at the arena where he works. There’s a championship on the line, and he is excited. He visits the players’ locker rooms where the players are getting prepared mentally (learning about their opponents, and their own plays) and physically (stretching and getting taped up). He watches the teams warm up with a series of practice drills with their coaches and trainers and observes the court being primed for the game. The game begins with the narrator tossing up the jump ball at center court. Game on…
A special section in the back of the book is chock-full of even more facts about the game and its storied history and players. It is custom-made for the fan who absorbs all things basketball!
This book is perfect for young, sports-obsessed fans who, in addition to watching and playing sports, crave the kind of expert knowledge that only an insider would know.
It’s game day, and a basketball referee arrives at the arena where he works. There’s a championship on the line, and he is excited. He visits the players’ locker rooms where the players are getting prepared mentally (learning about their opponents, and their own plays) and physically (stretching and getting taped up). He watches the teams warm up with a series of practice drills with their coaches and trainers and observes the court being primed for the game. The game begins with the narrator tossing up the jump ball at center court. Game on…
A special section in the back of the book is chock-full of even more facts about the game and its storied history and players. It is custom-made for the fan who absorbs all things basketball!
40 pages, Paperback
Published December 11, 2018
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January 23, 2019
This book focuses more on the overall "production" of a basketball game for tv and entertainment than the actual sport itself.
July 22, 2019
3 stars
October 4, 2022
From the referee’s perspective — excellent
December 17, 2018
My two-year-old ball enthusiast found this at the public library this weekend, and I read it aloud to him over 2 bedtimes. He really liked it, although was definitely more captivated by the pictures than the text. (He liked all the pictures of basketballs, of course, but also really liked the picture of the ladder from the original peach-basket game.)
It may be unworthy to put this on my list, but I may not make my 70 books anyway, and I DID learn several facts about the sport of basketball that I had not previously known.
It may be unworthy to put this on my list, but I may not make my 70 books anyway, and I DID learn several facts about the sport of basketball that I had not previously known.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews