{"product_id":"full-court-fever-isbn-9781561455089","title":"Full Court Fever","description":"\u003cb\u003eMichael Mancino's middle school basketball team is what you might call \"vertically challenged.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey have the skills, but what they lack in height has cost them the first two games of the season. So when Michael and his team meet Dikembe Obiku, a new student from Nigeria, they are sure they've found their saving grace. Dikembe is athletic and taller than most of the teachers, but there's one problem: He's never played basketball before!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir chances of making the ultimate comeback seem impossible. That is, until Michael discovers an old issue of \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e about the similarly \"vertically challenged\" UCLA Bruins who won the 1964 NCAA Championship with an aggressive and hard-to-beat full-court zone press. Can their team learn a thing or two from these Davids and take down their own Goliaths in the next game?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the afterword, readers can learn more about the 1964 UCLA Bruins.\"A must-have for libraries needing good sports fiction.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—School Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFred Bowen was a Little Leaguer who loved to read and is still a lifelong sports fanatic. He is the author of  the action-packed Fred Bowen Sports Story series, currently totaling more than twenty titles. For thirteen years, Bowen coached kids' baseball and basketball teams. He has also written a weekly sports column for kids in the Washington Post since 2000. He was a lawyer for many years before retiring to become a full-time children's book author.Bowen lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife Peggy Jackson. They have two grown children.","brand":"Peachtree","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303689867493,"sku":"NP9781561455089","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781561455089.jpg?v=1767727784","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/full-court-fever-isbn-9781561455089","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}