Collection Development Corner

Submitted by Alexa Martin, Molly Moore, and Kim Tomblin

Hello from your Collection Development team! We are excited to bring you a monthly check-in of what’s going on in Materials! Every month, we’ll share some of our favorite recent titles, trending genres, author read-a-likes or news and updates. 

Alexa:

NEW BASKETBALL BOOKS FOR KIDS

• Billie Jean Peet, Athlete by Andrea Beaty (Easy Fiction)

The newest installment in the beloved Questioneers series!

• Basket Ball by Kadir Nelson (Juvenile Nonfiction)

Features over 60 original oil paintings and lots of information on the history of basketball

• Atlanta Dream by Nancy Coffelt  (Juvenile Nonfiction)

Celebrates Atlanta’s WNBA team

• For the Win: Poems Celebrating Phenomenal Athletes by Irene Latham  (Juvenile Nonfiction)

Poetry anthology featuring work by award-winning authors (and a poem about LeBron James!)


Molly:

BASKETBALL BOOKS FOR TEENS

FICTION

• We Are Family by Lebron James
• Shot Clock by Caron Butler
• Nikki on the Line by Barbara Roberts
• The Playmakers by Chad Morris
• After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
• Training Camp by Wesley King and Kobe Bryant

NONFICTION

• Inaugural Ballers by Andrew Maraniss

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• We Are Big Time by Hena Khan
• Wish I Was a Baller by Amar Shah
• Champion by Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

Kim:

BASKETBALL - Ready for March? Pregame with these reads!

NEW 

• Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the Game in 75 Legendary Players by Sam Smith
• On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports by Christine Brennan
• Shot Ready by Stephen Curry

COMING SOON

 

• Court Queens: Celebrate the Players, Teams, and History of Women’s Basketball by Emma Baccellieri
• Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball by Luke Epplin
• Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird by Keith O’Brien
  
  

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

A lyrical memoir, told through the lens of a lifelong basketball fan.

• Courtside: 40 Years of NBA Photography by Nathaniel S. Butler

A coffee table-style book by a sports photographer who has chronicled the NBA for four decades. Includes commentary by several basketball legends.

• The Basketball 100 by The Athletic

The Athletic writers give fun fact-filled profiles of the all-time top 100 NBA players.