Shooting Stars

A 1st Person Account of What Happens When You're a High School Celebrity.

Shooting Stars is a story that goes in-depth to the childhood of NBA superstar: LeBron James. Having being written by LeBron himself, and Buzz Bissinger, you can trust the story is accurate. Beginning with his childhood, telling about his career playing AAU basketball with his friends, it really shows how hard you have to work to achieve what you want. LeBron practiced wherever he could, he worked with his friends and they did amazing things. It tells the story about LeBron's coach; Coach Dru. Coach Dru is the father of one of LeBron's best friends; Little Dru. Coach Dru will eventually become LeBron's high school coach, but is the current coach of LeBron's AAU team, the Shooting Stars. Coach does all he can, taking them to every tournament possible, even when it means driving in a minivan from Akron, Ohio to Pebble Beach, Florida for the AAU national tournament. This makes you appreciate all of the youth sports coaches out there. From his childhood, the book moves onto his high school career, and it is truly one to marvel at. With in-depth scores and a virtual play-by-play of almost every game, it is quite easy to feel as if you are actually watching the game. LeBron tells you his side of the story on all of the controversy of his high school career, and all of the on-goings at his high school, and what it felt like to be hated almost everywhere you went. This book is interesting for anyone who likes sports books. The story seems almost like fiction, and you could even think it is when you find out how good LeBron, and his teammates were in high school. But it is a biography and quite a good one. Often, biographies are seen and thought of as the books that are only good for research and are thought of as hard work just to turn the page. With this book, I found that it was interesting, and I wasn't even doing any research! You will learn more about high school sports, and what it's like to be taken advantage of.

Super Star comes with a Super Story

Shooting Stars by Lebron James and Buzz Bissinger is a moving account of James' childhood and teenage years as well as four of his best friends while living in Akron, Ohio. They grew up with great adversity and also one dream, winning a national championship in basketball. Through there diligence and hard work, they reached their dream together conquering any adversity along the way as a band of brothers.
There were a couple powerful messages that were apparent in this story. One was to follow your dreams. It's quite cliché; however, these young men worked hard, fought through much adversity (like their whole hometown turning against them) and humbled themselves to achieve their dream. It was not an easy road; however, they were willing to pursue in order to accomplish their dream. Another powerful message that was told in this story was to conqueror adversity. All five of these young men that started from humble beginnings and it was through diligence, resilience and an eye focused on their dream and they were able to escape to a better life.
One of the elements that I enjoyed about the book was how these young men united and relied on each other during the hardest times in young lives. They made every decision together as a brotherhood. Another element that I loved was Bissinger's style of writing. It was perfect to portray this story. He used imagery to paint the picture of games so precisely that I felt like I was in the bleachers watching. The only thing I didn't like about this book was that they author was not bashful of profanity. They give exact dialogue of the young men which contain some vulgar language.
I strongly recommend this book to all those out there that are basketball fans that are interested in learning about one of the most prolific athletes in the sports world today. I recommend this book even more strongly to those that are interested in reading a story about a group of young men that united as brothers and fought through to obtain a goal that is not fiction. It is a reality.

Shooting Stars From Above

Shooting Stars is an excellent book that shows the importance of friends. Without their friends LeBron James, Dru Joyce, Willie Mcgee, Sian Cotton, and Romeo Travis would have never been anywhere close to the men they are today. Throughout Shooting Stars tough times arise as well as easy times, but the Fab Five get through it and move on. A major message through the book is no matter what you have to do never lose the people that are closest to you. You may have to follow them to places that at the time you don't want to but because there your best friends you want to stick with them. I had many likes in this book as a whole. First, the book being written by a person that I have the same interests with helped tremendously. Also LeBron being in high school in the majority of the book helped because I am that age as well. Next I loved that the book was written on a true story and I could relate to things in the book that happened to me as well. One more thing that I liked about Shooting Stars was that it went into detail and had actual play by plays, scores, and pictures of games. Although there were lots I liked about this book, I also had some dislikes. The only thing I remotely disliked about the book was that the pictures in the book weren't scattered and were only in one place throughout the book. Other then that one minor dislike I loved the book. I would definitely recommend Shooting Stars to an outside reader that is looking for a book that teaches you good morals and is also very entertaining. This book gives you images in your head and also gives you an idea on how hard it is to be famous as a high school student athlete. My overall rating of Shooting Stars is nine and a half out of ten. I give this book this rating because it was my favorite novel that I have ever read. It got me hooked right from the beginning and I couldn't put it down until I read every single page. Shooting Stars will not disappoint you and I insist that if you have not read this book to go out right now and get your hands on it. Thank you for your time and your interest.

Motivational

The book Shooting Stars by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger is an inspirational book about perseverance, racism, friendship, and the love of basketball. Shooting Stars is a basketball program which Lebron and his friends played in. throughout the Shooting stars seasons they had together their friendships grew stronger and stronger. LeBron James grew up in the projects of Akron, Ohio without a father and moved around more than a dozen times with his mother by the age of ten. Willie McGee was the quiet one, who left both his parents behind due to their drug problems to live with his older brother. Dru Joyce was the most out spoken, his dad was the coach of Shooting stars and always pushed Dru harder than any other kid. Sian Cotton played football as well he was the happy-go-lucky while Romeo was unhappy and bitter until he finally opened himself to his teammates.
I enjoyed this book a lot, one because I like LeBron James, second because I love basketball. The book Shooting Stars shows how close friendships can help overcome any obstacle, The Fab Four LeBron, McGee, Dru, and Sain wanted to all go to the same high school together to play ball. At the time Butchel was the school to go to for sports for the minority, but the coach at Butchel wasn't going to give Dru or Sain a chance to really tryout so they all decided to go to St. V's so they could all play together but the black community hated the Fab Four for it and called them traitors. They stayed together and ended up winning a national championship at that school together along with Romeo who came along later.

shooting stars

lebron has been very grateful and has handled his success very well. i think this shows how down to earth he is and how he realizes it's a team effort keep up the way you act.

Amazing

best book i ever read it was so good. it shows a lot about the character of Lebron James because he talks more about his teammates then he does himself

A good book

Shooting Stars by LeBron James is a good book. It tells houw LeBron got his start with basketball. The book is more about inspiration and a coming-of-age story then it is about basketball.

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