Pass! Shoot! Swish! And 1! An all-star team of YA authors scores
spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.
It's one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise
known as The Cage. Hotshot 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-eightand-a-half-inch
Chester. Nine of YA literature's top writers, including Walter Dean
Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake
reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in
which each one picks up where the previous 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 and photographs by Charles R.
Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.