Ball Don't Lie

ISBN-10: 0385734255
ISBN-13: 9780385734257
Author: de la Pena, Matt
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: March 2007

Copyright: 2005

Page Count: 304

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: 710L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.7
Accelerated Reader Points: 10.0

BISAC Subjects

Basketball; Fiction

Basketball; Fiction

Basketball; Fiction

Description
Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He's a white boy living and playing in a world where he doesn't seem to belong. But Sticky can ball. And basketball might just be his ticket out . . . if he can only realize that he doesn't have to be the person everyone else expects him to be. Matt de la Pena's breakout urban masterpiece, Ball Don't Lie takes place where the street and the court meet and where a boy can be anything if he puts his mind to it.