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WALDEN, AMELIA Basketball Girl of the Year
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/Good. EX-LIBRARY. Usual library markings, pages toned, moderate shelf wear, smudging to page ridges. 1970 Hard Cover. "Whistleville, Greenport City's factory ghetto is there the finest, toughest members of the Greenport High School's championship girls' basketball team live. The Greensport team is in reality a converted street gang -- and Pat Palmer is their new leader. Now, it is senior year, and basketball looms all-important for Whistleville's multi-ethnic, multi-race gang. Each girl wants to get out of the ghetto. Waging a successful basketball campaign is one way to gain recognition and a college scholarship. For Pat, the leader and team captain, there is another goal -- winning the coveted Basketball Girl of the Year award. It looks like an easy season ahead for Pat and the Greenport team -- then the new girls' basketball coach, Madge Dickson arrives. And with her comes disaster. Anger, defeat, frustration, humiliation, not to mention romantic complications and a long overdue confrontation with her fathre, enter Pat's life and fill the bleak, cold days of spring. It is a time of bewildering confusion and great personal change, a time of physical violence and emotional upheavals. It is a bold story told with insight and compassion.".
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