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    Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
    Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
    Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
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    Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball

    By John Coy and Joe Morse

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    Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all.

    The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students—a bunch of energetic young men—are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting, and fast to keep the class happy—or someone's going to get hurt. Saving this class is going to take a genius.

    Discover the true story of how Naismith invented basketball in 1891 at a school in Springfield, Massachusetts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781467737852
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    John Coy

    John Coy is the author of young adult novels, the 4 for 4 middle-grade series, and nonfiction and fiction picture books including Hoop Genius, Game Changer, Their Great Gift, Dads, and If We Were Gone. He has received numerous awards for his work including a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor, a Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, and the Burr/Warzalla Award for Distinguished Achievement in Children's Literature. John lives by the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

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    • 5/5
      For students interested in sports history, this picture book will be sure to entertain and educate about the invention of basketball. John Coy is a well-know sports genre writer, so his narrative nonfiction will not only be engaging but full of gold nuggets. Great for read aloud!
    • 2/5
      I guess it was a good take on how basketball was started. I just couldn't get past how I hate the sport.
    • 4/5
      Well done story about the gym teacher who invented basketball. Cool illustrations.
    • 5/5
      Hoop Genius is a picture book (Gr 2-5) about the earliest beginnings of basketball, a game invented by a determined teacher, James Naismith. It tells the story of the process of trial and error, as Naismith struggles to discover an indoor game that would keep a rowdy class of male students engaged in gym class. The illustrations, by award-winner Joe Morse, effectively capture the nature of typically energetic and rambunctious teenagers. Readers today will easily recognize the same physical aggressiveness and drive for competition on the basketball court of any school today. This book is a fun and fascinating story of a creative teacher’s experiment in the classroom, the popularity of the game among students and eventual successful adoption of basketball in the U.S and the world. There’s also a reproduction of the original 1891 typed list of rules posted on the wall in the gym. A fun read-aloud by John Coy. Highly recommended. (NetGalley copy)

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