Basketball Disasters
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Chapter Book · Ages 7–10 · 2012

Basketball Disasters

Written by Claudia Mills · Illustrated by Guy Francis

Part of the Mason Dixon series

A reluctant fourth grader must lead a misfit basketball team against a school bully.

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Mason Dixon, a disaster-prone fourth grader, faces his toughest challenge yet: joining a basketball team he never wanted to be part of. With his dad as coach and a team of misfits, Mason must find a way to rally them against his arch-rival, the school bully Dunk. Can Mason turn this ragtag group into a winning team, or will they crumble under pressure? As friendships are tested and rivalries heat up, Mason learns that sometimes the biggest victories come from the most unexpected places.

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Here’s the third entry in Claudia Mills’s charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that’s possible), Mason must try to rally to beat his arch-rival, the school bully Dunk. Just another day-in-the-life of a disaster-prone fourth grader.

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
176
Reading age
7–10
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
820L
Themes & topics
Books about friendshipBooks about basketballBooks about dogsBooks about schoolBooks about family
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The fine print

Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.3
F&P level
~S
AR points
4
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
148808
Publication
Published
January 8, 2013
First published
January 1, 2012
Publisher
Yearling
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780375872761

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