Queen of the Court

By Michele Martin Bossley

Subjects: Self-acceptance, Frustration, Basketball stories, Parent and child, Recits, Basketball, Parents et enfants, Girls, fiction, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Basket-ball, Basketball, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Acceptation de soi

Description: Kallana wears the wildest clothes of anyone at her suburban Calgary junior high school. Still, it seems it's not enough to get the attention of her freelance photographer father or her non-kid-friendly mother. When her dad signs her up for the basketball team after Kallana is sent home from school for wearing "provocative" clothes, she's she can't dribble, she can't shoot, and the uniforms are just hideous. But as things get worse at home, basketball practice comes to be a welcome relief, and the self-confidence she learns at the free-throw line helps her prepare for the difficult changes she has to face.