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NIGHT HOOPS: SUMMARY
All Nick Abbbott ever wanted was for his father to compliment his game. That praise has always been reserved for Nick's older brother, Scott, a gifted athlete. When Scott chooses music over basketball, Nick finally gains his father's attention-and his win at all costs mentality. As one of only three sophomores to make varsity basketball, Nick struggles with becoming a team player, especially when that means sharing the ball with Trent Dawson, the troubled but talented boy from across the street. Then Nick's mother tells Trent that he can practice using Nick's backyard hoop. As Nick and Trent begin to play pick-up games late into the night, they also, reluctantly, begin to form an unusual friendship, and learn that how you play matters just as much as winning.

SUMMARY
All Nick Abbbott ever wanted was for his father to compliment his game. That praise has always been reserved for Nick's older brother, Scott, a gifted athlete. When Scott chooses music over basketball, Nick finally gains his father's attention-and his win at all costs mentality. As one of only three sophomores to make varsity basketball, Nick struggles with becoming a team player, especially when that means sharing the ball with Trent Dawson, the troubled but talented boy from across the street. Then Nick's mother tells Trent that he can practice using Nick's backyard hoop. As Nick and Trent begin to play pick-up games late into the night, they also, reluctantly, begin to form an unusual friendship, and learn that how you play matters just as much as winning.

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Seth and Jimmy have the kind of friendship you can't put into words--the kind you think only happens in movies. They both live and breathe baseball, but while Seth struggles to be good enough to make the varsity team, Jimmy, a natural, looks like he's on his way to becoming a major league star some day. On and off the field, their passion for the game gets them through some of life's bittersweet struggles and unites them in a once in a lifetime friendship that is meant to last forever. . .

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In a new town for his last year of high school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust is determined not to spend it as his ambitious father would have him--in a private school. Instead, he hopes to make this year his best on the basketball court, playing on the city's strongest public school team. But, as it happens, Joe's senior year turns out be entirely different from what he had expected. He attends a school he despises and watches his skill on the basketball court deteriorate until he can't even make a decent pass or easy lay-in. In desperation--he entangles himself in a situation so fantastic he can't tell if it's real or imagined--a dilemma set in motion one stormy afternoonin an abandoned gym when a series of miracle shots prompts Joe to strike a bold, brash, and utterly terrifying bargain.