Hooper

By Geoff Herbach

Subjects: Adoption, Basketball stories, Basketball, Prejudices, Basketball, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Friendship

Description: For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.