Hoops
by Walter Dean Myers
All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team... read more
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- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1981
Word Count 49,976
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 766, 7.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- Physical Education
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
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- Challenged Young Adult Books
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