Raymond Obstfeld
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
A personal account by the basketball star traces his childhood in Harlem and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on black culture in the United States, featuring interviews with Magic Johnson, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, and Denzel Washington.
Author
Series
Streetball crew volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Eighth-grader Theo Rollins' growth spurt has Coach Mandrake trying to transform him into a basketball star, but training time is hurting the science club's chances of winning the "Aca-lympics," and being accused of stealing could mean Theo is off both teams.
Author
Series
Streetball crew volume 2
Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When eighth-grader Chris's older brother, Jax, is caught betting on the pick-up basketball games that Chris and his friends play, Chris becomes involved in the police investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Midal work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African-Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that made him feel socially awkward. But with a talent for basketball, and an unmatched team of supporters, Lew Alcindor was able to transform and to become Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. From a childhood made difficult by racism and prejudice to a record-smashing career on the...
Author
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
"In On the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star and bestselling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites the reader on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace, through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in our history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life. Beginning with the rise of the Harlem Rens as pioneers...
Author
Series
Mycroft volume 1
Description
NBA All-Star legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar brings his best-selling Mycroft Holmes to comics – discover the hidden secrets of the elder Holmes brother! Illustrated by rising star Joshua Cassara (New Avengers, The Troop).
Author
Series
Mycroft volume 5
Description
1874. Despite the best efforts of a cadre of international thieves, criminals, and assassins, Mycroft Holmes and Adler have finally found the Apocalypse Handbook – a collection of working blueprints for deadly, highly advanced weapons. But their young ward, Kerry, has been abducted. Now, they await delivery of the ransom demands. The fates of both Kerry, and of the free world, rest in their hands!
Author
Series
Mycroft volume 1
Description
Basketball legend, novelist, and superstar polymath Kareem Abdul-Jabbar brings his take on Sherlock Holmes' older brother to comics at last! An all-new adventure set in the world of the bestselling Mycroft novel, The Apocalypse Handbook sees the diffident, brilliant Mycroft pulled into a globe-spanning adventure at the behest of Queen Victoria and a secret organization at the heart of the British government. A madman is on the loose with civilization-destroying...
Author
Series
Mycroft volume 4
Description
In search of the purloined Apocalypse Handbook, Mycroft Holmes and Lark Adler crisscross the United States, facing danger and intrigue at every turn. But what does the latest heist of Jesse James and his band of outlaws have to do with their quest? What secrets is Lark hiding in her past? And what traumas and triumphs have shaped Mycroft into the man he is today?
Author
Series
Mycroft volume 3
Description
Mycroft hits the USA in search of the Apocalypse Handbook - but an encounter at the New York docks leaves him battered and bruised at the hands of impossible superweapons – and that's even before he follows the trail out West, where an unexpected face boards his train, with robbery on his mind! And introducing... Lark Adler!
Author
Series
Mycroft volume 2
Description
Mycroft Holmes: rake, adventurer, intellectual; deductive mind without peer! Thrust into the greatest quest of his young life, Mycroft is forced to battle a monstrous abomination in the bowels of Buckingham Palace, as a courtly conspiracy threatens the world with steampunk weapons of mass destruction! With only his wits to aid him, Mycroft is soon set on a globetrotting mission to reclaim the plans for the weapons – before they fall into more nefarious...