Hoop Girlz

by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Book Overview

When ten-year-old River, who is crazy about basketball, is not chosen to play in the tournament set up in the town of Azalea, Oregon, she decides to organize a team of her own and accepts the help of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823416917
• ISBN13: 9780823416912
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Hoop Girlz review

Basketball is one of my favorite sports. I liked the book Hoop Girlz because it tells a story about girls around my age who play basketball just like me. Lucy Jane Bledsoe has written many books about sports but Hoop Girlz is my favorite because it is about a sport that I could relate to. Now if I read her book on baseball I would not be interested in it at all because I personally don't know anything about baseball. Any hoops player including myself would find it somewhat easy to understand because you know the pressure and hardships that come with playing this sport. Hoop Girlz is about a sixth grade girl named River Borowitz- Jacobs. She and her cocky neighbor Kammie try out for their school basketball team. However, she becomes very disappointed to find out that she made the B team while Kammie made the A team. River decides to name her team Hoop Girlz and hopes that she with some help from her brother can help the team win the tournament. This book kept me very interested and it was believable because the outline of the story is something that would happen in real life and something that I can closely relate to. There are no slow or confusing parts and the whole story connects together at the end. This is one of the best books I have ever read. The author, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, has an extraordinary way of describing the actions and characters in this story. My favorite part of the whole story was the ending because if all came together and all of my questions were answered. I do wish that the author had extended this book a little farther or made a sequel because even though most of my questions were answered I still had many more. For example, will River be a professional basketball player when she grows up? Over all Hoop Girlz was still a very interesting book. I recommend Hoop Girlz to anyone who enjoys basketball or is into sports and fiction. If I had to rate this book between a one and a five I would definitely rate this book a five. Read Hoop Girlz and be ready for an incredible book.