Craig Leener

Gebundenes Buch

This Was Never About Basketball

Book 1 of the Zeke Archer Basketball Trilogy

Beschreibung

In this coming-of-age novel seventeen-year-old high school basketball star Ezekiel "Zeke" Archer has it all: a sweet jump shot a full-ride scholarship to a Midwestern basketball powerhouse and the brightest future. But when Zeke’s temper gets the better of him in the city championship he is expelled from school has to forfeit his scholarship and is left to ponder his once-hopeful future... While finishing his final high school days in the California educational system’s version of purgatory Zeke makes a stunning discovery. With the help of a young autistic classmate Zeke befriends he learns that the mysterious 7th Dimension which brought basketball to Earth more than a century ago has decided to take the game away for good — all because of the ugly event Zeke set into motion in his final game! As he embarks on the ultimate cross-country road trip to save basketball Zeke must confront his unsettled past — including a father he’s not heard from in years and a brother fighting in a war half a world away — in order to set his life on the right path and rescue the game he loves.

Autor

Despite being relatively earthbound most of the time, Craig Leener has long maintained a keen interest in space travel. He's also a big fan of basketball, having immersed himself in the game since his youth as a player, coach, referee, fan and, later in life, as a sportswriter.Craig has an above-average ability to go to his left and maintains a solid perimeter jumper. His free-throw percentage on his backyard home court is an implausible 87 percent - and to this day, that number remains 100-percent officially unverified. And what the author lacks in foot speed, leaping ability, and defense, he makes up for in court smarts and postgame snacks.Craig is a lifelong opponent of the instant replay in sports. He maintains this contrarian point of view because of the intrinsic value he places on the human element's potential to influence the outcome of athletic competition, inadvertently or otherwise.Craig holds degrees from Los Angeles Valley College and California State University, Northridge. He sits on the board of directors of CSUN's Journalism Alumni Association and serves as the organization's director of scholarships. Although Craig possesses an innate curiosity about what might reside beyond the heavens, he lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles with his truly otherworldly wife, Andrea.There's No Basketball on Mars is his fourth young-adult novel, following the publication of the Zeke Archer Basketball Trilogy. The author and his publishing company, Green Buffalo Press, will donate a portion of proceeds from the sale of this book to Exceptional Minds, an academy and studio that prepares young adults on the autism spectrum for careers in animation, visual effects, 3D gaming, and other related fields in the entertainment industry. The organization is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Green Buffalo Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9798991466202
• Artikelnr.: 71769363