Stealing the Game
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Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his older brother and his parents’ “golden child.” Lately, though, Jax has been full of surprises. First he dropped out of law school; then he started hanging out with some shifty-looking friends. One day Jax asks Chris to recruit his best middle school teammates for a pick-up basketball game in the park. Chris doesn’t think much of it until the wrong team wins and Jax goes ballistic. It turns out that Jax bet on the game, hoping to earn enough money to repay a debt to someone who doesn’t forgive easily. While Chris tries to walk a thin tightrope between helping his brother and staying out of trouble, his friend Theo does some behind-the-scenes detective work to learn what Jax has been up to. The day Chris is roped into a police investigation is the day he realizes he made the wrong play.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. Since retiring, he has been an actor, a basketball coach, and the author of many New York Times bestsellers. Abdul-Jabbar is also a columnist for many news outlets, such as The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter, writing on a wide range of subjects including race, politics, age, and pop culture. In 2012, he was selected as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador and in 2016 Abdul-Jabbar was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award which recognizes exceptional meritorious service. He lives in Southern California.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781423178712
- Publication Date
- February 3, 2015
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Page Count
- 304
- Words Per Page
- 196
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2013046413
- Est. Lexile® Level
- ~750L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~R
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4.8
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 9
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 172132
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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