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The Perfect Shot
Contributor(s): Alphin, Elaine Marie (Author)

ISBN: 1575058626 ISBN-13: 9781575058627
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab (R)

OUR PRICE: $14.41

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2005
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Annotation: Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2005003159

Age Level: 11-18

Grade Level: 6-13

Lexile Measure: 920(Not Available)

Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.34" W x 8.82" L (1.24 lbs) 360 pages

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product

Awards: Golden Sower Award, Honor Book, Young Adult, 2008
Iowa Teen Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2008
Black-Eyed Susan Award, Nominee, High School, 2007
Tayshas Reading, Commended, Young Adult, 2006
IndieFab awards, Winner, Young Adult Fiction, 2005
Grand Canyon Reader Award, Nominee, Teen, 2008
Volunteer State Book Awards, Nominee, Young Adult, 2007

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 08/15/2005 pg. 907
Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 83
School Library Journal 10/01/2005 pg. 150
Publishers Weekly 11/07/2005 pg. 75
Kliatt 11/01/2005 pg. 4
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2005 pg. 390 - Recommended - Readable
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2006 pg. 216
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006 pg. 88 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Multicultural Review 06/01/2006 pg. 103

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 101802
Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Someone has murdered Brian's girlfriend, Amanda. The police think it was her father. Brian isn't so sure. But everyone he knows is telling him to move on, get over it, focus on the present. Focus on basketball. Focus on hitting that perfect shot. Brian hopes that the system will work for Amanda and her father. An innocent man couldn't be wrongly convicted, could he? But then Brian does a school project on Leo Frank, a Jewish man lynched decades ago for the murder of a teenage girl--a murder he didn't commit. Worse still, Brian's teammate Julius gets arrested for nothing more than being a black kid in the wrong place at the wrong time. Brian can't deny any longer that the system is flawed. As Amanda's father goes on trial, Brian admits to himself that he knows something that could break the case. But if he comes forward, will the real killer try for another perfect shot--this time against Brian?

Contributor Bio(s): Alphin, Elaine Marie: -

Since her first novel for young readers appeared in 1991, Elaine Marie Alphin published 27 books for young people and one for adults (about writing for young people). Elaine wrote for readers of all ages, from Davy Crockett in Lerner's History Makers series for beginning readers up through teenage mysteries such as Counterfeit Son, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult mystery. Elaine loved research, and that love impacted all of her writing, from biographies for middle grade readers like I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight: A Story About John Paul Jones in the Creative Minds series through young adult fiction such as the history-inspired mystery, The Perfect Shot to the stand-alone nonfiction young adult book An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank.

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