• Hoop Queens (Sports Royalty)

Hoop Queens
(Sports Royalty)

Publication Date
September 11, 2007
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  6th − 7th
Hoop Queens (Sports Royalty)

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Description

Young basketball fans will have a hard time keeping still. . . . A great choice to energize poetry units. -- Booklist

Margo Dydek, Ticha Penicheiro, Chamique Holdsclaw . . . these are just three of the twelve women profiled in a dynamic group of poems honoring some of the best female players in professional basketball. With action photographs and kinetic lyrics illustrating each player's style, Hoop Queens will grab the attention of any kid who loves basketball -- and score a slam-dunk with teachers of poetry.

An International Reading Association Children's Choice

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

A Chicago Public Library Best Book

Back matter includes notes on the poems and an author's note.

Publication date
September 11, 2007
Classification
Non-fiction
Page Count
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ISBN-13
9780763635619
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Series
Sports Royalty
BISAC categories
JNF042000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
JNF054020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Basketball
Library of Congress categories
Women
American poetry
Children's poetry, American
Basketball
Women basketball players

ALA/Booklist

Young basketball fans will have a hard time keeping still. . . . A great choice to energize poetry units. -- Booklist
Charles R Smith
Charlot Kristensen is a Dublin based illustrator, designer, and book author. As a Black artist she often depicts underrepresented characters in empowering ways to help change their narratives. Some of her most renowned clients include HuffPost, Google, Scholastic, Penguin Random House, and the New York Times. You can find her at charlotk.myportfolio.com.
Charles R. Smith Jr. is an award-winning author, photographer, and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration (2010) for his photographs accompanying the Langston Hughes poem, My People, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award (2008) for his biography on Muhammad Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory. Many of his books have also garnered reluctant reader awards, proving that kids that don't like to read do like to read his books. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York. You can find him at charlesrsmithjr.com.
New York Public Library
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Best Book For the Teen Age
Chicago Public Library
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Best Book
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