2023 March Madness | Metro Nashville Public Schools

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After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...

2) The Avant-Guards: Volume one

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Usdin, Carly

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Avant-Guards volume 1

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Comic, eComic

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"As a transfer student to the Georgia O'Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they're going. When the school's barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie's adamant that she's left that life behind--until she's won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and the...

3) The Avant-Guards: Issue #1

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Usdin, Carly

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Avant-Guards volume 1

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Welcome to the Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, an historically all-female school whose population is decidedly more drama geek than jock. Liv, aspiring actor and basketball enthusiast, doesn't understand why she can't be both, but she seems alone in that belief...until Charlie. Charlie is a recent transfer, a star basketball player, and the answer to all of Liv's problems. She'll stop at nothing to get Charlie to join the ragtag...

4) Inaugural ballers : the true story of the first US Women's Olympic basketball team

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Maraniss, Andrew

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Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76...

5) Waiting for spring: 1

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Anashin

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Waiting for Spring volume 1

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Mitzuki is a shy girl who longs to experience true friendship, but struggles to open her heart to others. When the four stars of the boys' basketball team drop by the café where she works, Mitsuki is pleasantly surprised by their unique personalities. With this new group of friends, an exciting high school life may be waiting for this former wallflower.

6) Here to stay

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Farizan, Sara

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When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.

7) Chlorine sky

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Browne, Mahogany L

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Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.

8) The crossover

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Alexander, Kwame

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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1

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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

9) Strong inside: the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line

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Maraniss, Andrew

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Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from...

10) Rebound

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Alexander, Kwame

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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel

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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.

11) Dragon hoops

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Yang, Gene Luen

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"Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....