Journals of a Wannabe Basketball Player Lovely Whitmore 9781105409875 Books
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9 year old Kayla loves the sport of basketball, it's all she dreams about is becoming a WNBA player. While her twin sister Kela is better at everything basketball is the one thing that Kayla feels is her "thing". Everyday she faces ridicule from her peers, coaches, and even her friends. If she's gonna play basketball Kayla must overcome some of her most inner secret obstacles. Kayla was given a journal as a birthday present on her 9th birthday. It is unique in that it's the only gift she received that her twin sister Kela did not get too. She uses this journal to document her adventures and daily life. All of her most inner secrets are recorded in this journal. Sit back and see the world through the eyes of this ambitious 9 year old as she quickly learns that the real world is full of let downs and disappointments.
Journals of a Wannabe Basketball Player Lovely Whitmore 9781105409875 Books
This was an amazing story to read. I have a 10 year-old and this was so accurate to his way of speech and thought. I was amazed. The story based around a girl who wants be to play basketball but has all of these obstacles in her way. Both mentally and physically. She overcomes all of these and makes good on her storytelling.The tween storyteller is at the awkward stage in her ability. She's really good, but not as focused as she needs to be. She has talent, but not the drive and determination to block out what is going on in her immediate area.
Her life is hard. Family dynamics make it a tough go for a lot of her time. She has a good attitude but also she's trying to live her own life not in the shadow of her social-butterfly of a twin sister.
Such a good outlook on events in her life. She makes everything happening make sense in her nine year-old way. You understand her perception and trials and tribulations of life as a kid going up in a broken home but loving both her parents and wanting nothing more than their reconciliation. It's heartbreaking and heart-bursting and humorous all at the same time. I really enjoyed reading this story and cannot wait to hand this over to my child and let him read it as well. I think he'd be okay about reading a story about a girl, since tomboy is the same of the game and she really doesn't live a girlie-girlie life anyway. I highly recommend!!!
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Journals of a Wannabe Basketball Player Lovely Whitmore 9781105409875 Books Reviews
This was a very good read. Left me wanting to read more and more!!! I can't wait to read her other books as well. I love good stories and this was a good story
Kayla loves basketball, basketball, and basketball! That is what the book is all about plus many other issues. The family is split up and Kayla has to live and survive in that type of family with her twin Kela. She often is teased and made fun of but she gets on with her life. She does receive a great gift in form of a diary book in which she records all the good and bad in her life. This is a great book so buy it! Five Stars!
This is a very emotional story of a young girl who has a desire to play basketball. She deals with family issues. Her mother and father are divorced and both are now dating someone else. She wants her parents to get back together, so she is not open to accepting the step parents. She also has a twin sister who is very popular with the other kids and much of a show off. This story while very emotional, had many life lessons and was a very good read.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Overall, this is a pretty good book that I enjoyed. I'm not a basketball fan but that wasn't a big deal.
This review may contain some spoilers.
Pros
-I liked subtle things in the book like "Kela and Miss Emily made breakfast." Even though Kayla doesn't make a big deal out of it, it gives a slight sense that more stuff is being done with the her sister than her.
-I enjoyed the part where Kayla was bragging about the match against Angela. It came off just right for a 9 year old.
-The way Kayla would change her mind came off a very realistic. One day she wouldn't like Julie because of something she did, the next day she and Julie would be friends.
-As a whole, I think the entire story was a nice read. It had pretty good depth and emotion.
Cons
-A tiny thing but the cover looked low resolution and was blurry.
-I was very forgiving of grammar mistakes and mispellings in this book because it's supposed to be the diary of a 9 year old girl. However, sometimes there were mistakes that didn't feel purposeful.
For example
"sit of the bench"
"dumb ugly fluffy dog too.!" Here it feels weird that she would put a period and an exclamation point. If she was writing it down and she put a period and realized she should have an exclamation point, it would make more sense that she'd just draw a line over the period. Because of that this feels like it was an accident.
"grounded us for two three days" It turned out they were grounded for two days. Perhaps it was three before and somehow that got left in?
There's another point when their mother is scolding the two girls for fighting and there's a quotation mark left off. I started reading it as Kayla narrating in the journal and then realized it was supposed to be Kela talking.
There's a few of these in the book that I felt should be fixed.
-At one point the father moves to China. When he talks to his daughter he says he's learned to say a lot of things and it pinged me as strange because it felt like he'd only just gotten there. When I browsed back he'd been there for less than two weeks. I suppose he could have just been telling his daughter that to be positive, but on average it takes a few months for someone immersed in another language to say much of anything. Even if he'd been studying for a few months he likely wouldn't be able to communicate effectively yet. It's not a big plot point or anything, it just pinged me as off.
-The last thing I noted is that some things felt forced. In the beginning when Kayla is dumping a lot of information on the reader it seemed like she took notes of things that didn't seem like something a 9 year old would pay attention to.
The other thing I thought felt forced was how much being a twin was mentioned. I understood mentioning it off the bat to establish that they were twins, but in Kayla's own journal she would write "twin sister Kela" instead of just "Kela" or "my sister". She did this a lot in the beginning, more like she was afraid the reader would forget that they're twins.
On the twin thing, I understand why kids would address them as "twin", but I found it odd that adults would call them "twin" instead of by their names; especially when Kayla and Kela weren't even on the same team anymore. They knew which girl they had on their team, they should know her name. I think I understand why the author did this because at the end they were cheering for "Kayla" instead of "twin", but throughout the story I was wondering what was wrong with some of the adults.
This is a short book; it only took me a couple of hours to read, so if it looks interesting to you I'd suggest picking it up.
I give this publish a great props on the direction chosen on this display.
As I read through the levels I actually enjoyed it even more than my original interests assumed
due to the fact that the expressions gave me a vivid imagined view from the story and its outlay.
Lovely, your skill in setting this in play was at best "fantastic". From the outskirts of the cover
to the words that line the chapters. Great works indeed. "Journals Of A Wanna Be Basketball Player".
'.....[ B l e e v i t T ]....' FaShOw
The book was great! A must read. Definitely get this book for your kids. They'll luv it...Nice work, lovely. Yep! You go, bgal.
Having played basketball in jr. high and high school and having a daughter that played BB in College, I was looking forward to this story. The story takes place as a journal of a spirited 9 year old girl. The author got her emotions spot on! I smiled, laughed and held my breath throughout the book as the little girl wrote down her feelings, thoughts and experiences. What a "novel" idea for a book and such a great job putting the reader right there emotion wise with the little girl. Good book for all ages!!
This was an amazing story to read. I have a 10 year-old and this was so accurate to his way of speech and thought. I was amazed. The story based around a girl who wants be to play basketball but has all of these obstacles in her way. Both mentally and physically. She overcomes all of these and makes good on her storytelling.
The tween storyteller is at the awkward stage in her ability. She's really good, but not as focused as she needs to be. She has talent, but not the drive and determination to block out what is going on in her immediate area.
Her life is hard. Family dynamics make it a tough go for a lot of her time. She has a good attitude but also she's trying to live her own life not in the shadow of her social-butterfly of a twin sister.
Such a good outlook on events in her life. She makes everything happening make sense in her nine year-old way. You understand her perception and trials and tribulations of life as a kid going up in a broken home but loving both her parents and wanting nothing more than their reconciliation. It's heartbreaking and heart-bursting and humorous all at the same time. I really enjoyed reading this story and cannot wait to hand this over to my child and let him read it as well. I think he'd be okay about reading a story about a girl, since tomboy is the same of the game and she really doesn't live a girlie-girlie life anyway. I highly recommend!!!
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