PickUp Game, Marc Aronson
PickUp Game, Marc Aronson
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Pick-Up Game
A Full Day of Full Court

Author: Marc Aronson, Charles R. Smith Jr.

Narrator: Dion Graham, Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/08/2011

Synopsis

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.

About Marc Aronson

Marc Aronson has a doctorate in American history and is a member of the graduate faculty in the library school at Rutgers. He is an editor and author of many award-winning books for young people, including War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War, which he co-edited with Patty Campbell. Marc Aronson lives in New Jersey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aneesh

The clocks ticking, your jersey's wet, the audience is screaming, the floor is centered on you. Are you going to take the shot, or pass it? This is the kind of world Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court, by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr., puts you, the reader, in. This book is not only very......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

This is how a collection of short stories should be done! I loved hearing how Aronson & Smith set up the authors to write in succession. The way the feel and the flow of the pick-up game really is carried through each story, told by a different author. The writing is mad fly (as Shane would say), an......more

Goodreads review by Miguel

Marc Aronson Unlike the regular story line of many other novels the novel Pick Up Game: Full Day of Full Court edited by Marc Aronson has a much different format and somewhat surprises the reader with the way it is organized. It is not one simple story with a set antagonist and protagonist but a......more

Goodreads review by Samantha

I read Pick- up Game a Full Day of Full Court for the sports genre and it is written by ten separate authors. Each author has his own story that they wrote, but somehow all the characters lives are interrelated as you keep reading. Each story is written from a different character’s perspective. The......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Are you in the grips of March Madness? Can’t get enough of basketball? Let me suggest some great books to read in between games. “Pick-up Game: A Full Day of Full Court” (Candlewick Press, 2011) is a collection of interlinked short stories and poems written by an all-star team of nine YA authors, in......more

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