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Description
This book describes some exciting jobs that make the game of basketball possible.
Quick Summary
If your kid is obsessed with basketball but thinks the only way to work in sports is to become a player, this short little book opens their eyes to a whole different game. Guti rrez breaks down jobs like coach, referee, sports broadcaster, athletic trainer, and team manager showing kids that there's a whole crew making the game happen behind the scenes. At only 800 words, it's a super quick read that won't intimidate even the most reluctant reader, and the AR level of 2.6 means kids in middle elementary on up can handle it independently. What I like is that it treats each job as genuinely interesting rather than just listing facts, so it actually makes you think about whether one of these careers might be for you. Parents will appreciate that it's wholesome and educational without being preachy, just lots of cool behind-the-scenes basketball stuff. If your young hoop fan is looking for something related but wants to branch out from biographies of players, this hits that spot perfectly it's like the basketball equivalent of those "what if you worked at a theme park" books, but for the court.