Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo
Millions watch basketball games at gyms, arenas, or on TV. Others listen to games on the radio. Youths play the game in gyms and schoolyards, getting great exercise, working on their skills, and attending practices to learn more about a fantastic and fun team sport.

Whether you recently signed up for the basketball team, watch a brother or sister play, or want to learn more about this game, this book is for you.

Simple text, clear illustrations of the court and its markings, drawings of where the players play on the court, and pictures of the official's signals will help you know more about playing basketball, the players and positions, basic rules, and the meaning of basketball words.

Game on!
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Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo
Millions watch basketball games at gyms, arenas, or on TV. Others listen to games on the radio. Youths play the game in gyms and schoolyards, getting great exercise, working on their skills, and attending practices to learn more about a fantastic and fun team sport.

Whether you recently signed up for the basketball team, watch a brother or sister play, or want to learn more about this game, this book is for you.

Simple text, clear illustrations of the court and its markings, drawings of where the players play on the court, and pictures of the official's signals will help you know more about playing basketball, the players and positions, basic rules, and the meaning of basketball words.

Game on!
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Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo

Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo

by Suzy Beamer Bohnert
Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo

Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo

by Suzy Beamer Bohnert

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Overview

Millions watch basketball games at gyms, arenas, or on TV. Others listen to games on the radio. Youths play the game in gyms and schoolyards, getting great exercise, working on their skills, and attending practices to learn more about a fantastic and fun team sport.

Whether you recently signed up for the basketball team, watch a brother or sister play, or want to learn more about this game, this book is for you.

Simple text, clear illustrations of the court and its markings, drawings of where the players play on the court, and pictures of the official's signals will help you know more about playing basketball, the players and positions, basic rules, and the meaning of basketball words.

Game on!

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014224468
Publisher: B&B Publishing
Publication date: 04/04/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 98
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Suzy Beamer Bohnert played sports during her youth, participating in leagues, playing in gyms, and gathering the neighborhood kids to join in pickup games until the streetlights were too dim to light the sporting site.

She launched her writing career as a newspaper sports editor. During that job, Suzy interviewed numerous coaches, athletes, and fans about sports, putting complicated games into simple words. Her books include Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo; Game-Day Goddess: Learning Basketball's Lingo; Game-Day Goddess: Learning Football's Lingo; Game-Day Youth: Learning Baseball's Lingo; Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo; Game-Day Youth: Learning Football's Lingo; and the fiction children's book, Binkie Learns to Fly.

An author of many acclaimed books for readers, her award-winners include Game-Day Youth: Learning Baseball's Lingo, a Mom's Choice Award-winner for "Most Outstanding Nonfiction Children's Book"; Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo, named Best Books for Teen Boys by the New Hampshire Library Media Association; Game-Day Youth: Learning Football's Lingo, given the Honorable Mention Award for nonfiction in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards; and the Game-Day Goddess Sports Series, 3-Volume Set, selected as Best Books for College Students by StudentAdvisor.com, a Washington Post Co. Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo, Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo, Game-Day Youth: Learning Baseball's Lingo, and Game-Day Youth: Learning Football's Lingo were winners of the Readers' Favorite Five-Star Award.

The recipient of nineteen national awards for writing excellence, including the Hermes Creative, Ragan Communications, and MarCom Awards, she lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, Randall, and son and daughter, where she helps coach her kids' basketball, softball, and soccer teams.

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