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    Black Hoops: The History of African Americans in Basketball
      This book provides a history of basketball and African Americans in basketball. To help readers understand these issues, the author provides historical backdrops that address racism, segregation, the struggle to desegregate sports, and the civil rights mo
      Author: McKissack, Frederick, Jr. HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Hoop Kings
      A dozen NBA stars provide the focus for these poems. In endnotes, the author describes his writing process.
      Author: Smith Jr., Charles R.

    Hoop Queens
      This is a collection of 12 poems about stars of the WNBA. An afterword explains how the poet found a focus for each poem by considering the woman's play.
      Author: Smith Jr., Charles R.

    Hoops
      The author and illustrator capture the feel and movement of playing basketball.
      Author: Burleigh, Robert

    Jabberwocky
      With his wonderfully bright, energetic illustrations, Myers gives an Mezo-American and African American spin to the famous poem by Lewis Carroll. Myer's "reimagined" famous poem by Carroll is unique in its contemporary setting of an urban street basket
      Author: Carroll, Lewis HSE Descriptors: literature and arts

    Nazi Olympics, The
      Published by the U. S. National Holocaust Museum, this history documents the manipulation of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin by Hitler and the Nazi party and presents the controversy of whether to participate or not on the part of nations and individuals. Ar
      Author: Bachrach, Susan HSE Descriptors: social studies


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