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Shooting Stars (Hardcover)

By: Buzz Bissinger (Author) and Lebron James (Author)

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"SHOOTING STARS reads like a better-than-average young-adult novel, STAND BY ME with breakaway dunks and long, arching three-pointers. I suspect it will find its best and most eager audience among the teenagers and preteenagers for whom James is a deserving role model."

"[T]his is not the usual inevitable pabulum and breathless deification....This is a coming-of-age tale, approached from a different angle, and deftly done. The reportage is thorough to a fare-thee-well, what you would expect from a seasoned veteran, and their overall collaboration makes for an engaging read."

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A leading NBA star and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights present the story of James's inner-city Ohio youth basketball team on which players overcame challenging hardships to qualify for a national championship while learning key lessons about teamwork.

A leading NBA star and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights present the story of James's inner-city Ohio youth basketball team on which players overcame challenging hardships to qualify for a national championship while learning key lessons about teamwork.

From the ultimate teama basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prizeawinning author of "Friday Night Lights" and "Three Nights in August"aa poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including Jamesas own.
The Shooting Stars were a bunch of kidsaLeBron James and his best friendsafrom Akron, Ohio, who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a bond that would carry them through thick and thin (a lot of thin) and, at last, to a national championship in their senior year of high school.
They were a motley group who faced challenges all too typical of inner-city America. LeBron grew up without a father and had moved with his mother more than a dozen times by the age of ten. Willie McGee, the quiet one, had left both his parents behind in Chicago to be raised by his older brother in Akron. Dru Joyce was outspoken, and his dad was ever present; he would end up coaching all five of the boys in high school. Sian Cotton, who also played football, was the happy-go-lucky enforcer, while Romeo Travis was unhappy, bitter, even surly, until he finally opened himself up to the bond his teammates offered him.
In the summer after seventh grade, the Shooting Stars tasted glory when they qualified for a national championship tournament in Memphis. But they lost their focus and had to go home early. They promised one another they would stay together and do whatever it took to win a national title.
They had no idea how hard it would be to pursue that promise. In the years that followed, they would endure jealousy, hostility, exploitation, resentment from the black community (because they went to a awhitea high school), and the consequences of their own overconfidence. Not least, they would all have to wrestle with LeBronas outsize success, which brought too much attention and even a whiff of scandal their way. But together these five boys became men, and together they claimed the prize they had fought for all those yearsaa national championship.

Annotation

While it has become almost de rigueur for sports stars and their ghostwriters to pen self-congratulatory epics about their tough road to the top, LeBron James is no ordinary athlete and Buzz Bissinger is no anonymous scribbler. If nothing else, SHOOTING STARS may go down in literary history for having the most impressive and eclectic collection of book jacket quotes. Bob Costas, Mike Krzyzewski. John Grisham, Jay-Z and Warren Buffett all sing the praises of King James and his inspirational literary debut, which documents the unbelievable obstacles that he and his four high school teammates from St. Vincent's Academy in Akron, Ohio had to overcome in their quest to become national champions. James and his four friends first played together when they were 10 and 11 years old, and they forged a bond which would endure through poverty, family problems, controversy, racism (from both blacks and whites), and the ridiculous media frenzy which surrounded them during their senior year.

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