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    Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
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    Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court

    Written by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr.

    Narrated by Dion Graham and Quincy Tyler Bernstine

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    About this audiobook

    It's one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of YA literature's top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that ingeniously pick up where the last one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781455800841
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    Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
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    Marc Aronson

    Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA’s first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from New York University. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com.

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    • 4/5
      Readers who love nothing but net will love this collection of connected stories and poems written by a lineup of stellar authors.
    • 2/5
      So here's my problem with this one - I'm so clearly not the right audience at all that I don't feel even close to capable of evaluating it. I like a good sports story but I didn't even understand what was going on with the basketball half the time. I think the language was just a little beyond me. Basically, I'm willing to take other people's word that it's good and will recommend it to readers as appropriate, but it's just not my thing.
    • 5/5
      A collection of short stories about pick-up basketball and a diverse set of characters set in New York City.
    • 5/5
      A collection of short stories about pick-up basketball and a diverse set of characters set in New York City.