# Night Hoops

**Author:** Carl Deuker
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2000
**Page count:** 218
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780064472753`
**ISBN-10:** `0064472752`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/night-hoops
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and the erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street. Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. It's sophomore year and Nick is trying to deal with his parents' divorce. He also really wants to be a star on the basketball team. Trent, his neighbor, is angry, and aggressive. The two form an uneasy bond as they quietly practice each night on Nick's backyard basketball court.

## Themes

- basketball
- divorce
- interpersonal relations
- behavior

## Where this book is assigned

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2003 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2003 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2003 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2003 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

---

_Generated from primary-source citations indexed on ReadingList.school. For the full HTML view with reading-list cross-references, see https://readinglist.school/book/night-hoops._