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Binding: School & Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3236209744
EAN: 9780785786979
ISBN: 078578697X
Label: Topeka Bindery
Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1999-10
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Topeka Bindery

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
They were a talented team with a near-perfect record but a reputation for choking in the crunch of the state playoffs. Finally, after five straight years of disappointments, the Amherst Lady Hurricanes found they just might have what it took to go all the way. This is a fierce, funny, and intimate look into their minds and hearts during one very special season. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.

Product Description:
Following the championship season of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes basketball team, this poignant account documents the personal struggles and tribulations that accrued to the girls' ultimate victory, which won them the respect they had always sought. Reprint.




Rating: - Not much basketball in this book.
This book is filled with the most mundane details about each girl on the team, the town and people of Amherst and surrounding towns, local history, Emily Dickinson, the evolution of women's sports, etc., but it provides very little text about basketball itself. It devotes only a few pages in the whole book to describing anything that actually occurred during a basketball game. I read it with my 13 year old daughter, who is developing an interest in basketball, and it was a bit tedious for us both. ... Read More

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Rating: - In These Girls Hope is a Muscle
Great book - arrived in a timely manner and in great shape -- looked like new.

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Rating: - Excellent book!
There are more high school girls in sports today than ever before. Unfortuantely, the sports literature has not quite kept pace. This book helps rectify that situation. Madeleine Blais tells a great story of persistence, teamwork, and drive that all students need to learn if they are to succeed in a world based on competition. She writes with a journalist's eye and it is easy for the reader to place the team's quest in the larger context of the role of women in American society (but I do not see ... Read More

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Rating: - A good true story, a bit dragged out
I picked up this book and read it because I like sports stories, I work with high school students, and I am on a committee to recommend books for our school reading list. This book is well written, and the author spends a lot of time painting a background for this story - covering both the area (Amherst, MA), and the families of the players. Each anecdote was interesting, but probably 60-80% of this book did consist of "background" anecdotes. And there was not always a strong connection to the story ... Read More

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Rating: - Too much information
I love basketball! I played it and I've coached it. I chose this book to find out the story of a team and how it got its act together to be successful.

Well, I got that information, but it was mixed up with lots of other factoids that I really didn't care about. You were told about the town, the colleges, the weather, the families of the players, the kinds of summer jobs the players had, whether they were popular or not....the list goes on and on.

The writing was descriptive, ... Read More

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