For everyone who wants to relive Sue Bird’s 2004 run for Olympic Gold and a WNBA Championship through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl.
Twelve-year-old Skylar Rankin is obsessed with basketball and wants more than anything to grow up to be just like her hero Sue Bird. All she has to do is play better than anyone else, win top honors and awards, and get recruited by the best colleges. But she has to take that scary, exciting first step to see if she”s really good enough to achieve her dream.
Dragonfeather Books
For ages 9 and up
98 pp. ● 5.06×7.81
$8.95 (pb) ● $5.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-934452-81-3 (pb)
JUVENILE FICTION – Sports & Recreation
– Basketball
Basketball – Juvenile fiction
C.A. Casey lives in Northern California. She’s been a musician and a librarian and is currently an editor for a publishing company. She loves basketball and other team sports and haunts games with her camera. During the summer of 2006 and 2007 she covered the Sacramento Monarchs for SportsPageMagazine. A dream come true for her. She has articles in library journals and in Strange Horizons, and stories in Aoife’s Kiss, The Lorelei Signal, Coyote Wild, Sorcerous Signal, The Fifth Di . . . and Beyond Centauri. Her cat, Karma, puts up with her as long as she gets to sleep on her lap.