Hoop+Hustle

=HOOP HUSTLE by JAKE MADDOX=

=FICTION=

=NOMINATED BY: COLE A=

=Brian Worth Jr. is a really competitive basketball player. He is determined to make the varsity team because he dominated the junior varsity team. One night he was playing hoops at a park and his family got worried because he was late coming home. HIs dad got upset and told him as punishment he had to go volunteer at a senior center. Brian was not happy about that. At the center, he becomes friends with an old man named George who knows more about basketball than Brian imagined.= =I nominated this book because I like basketball. Jake Maddox (the author) writes books that are interesting to boys or girls who likes sports. In most of these books, there is a challenge that the main character faces.=