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Jay Hirtle plays on the basketball team at Richmond Academy in a small rural town. The team to beat is Centreville, where star player Mike Murphy is seen as Richmond's number-one opponent. After the Hirtle house is destroyed by a fire, Jay's family moves in with his grandfather and the kids must switch schools until the end of the year. Jay has a choice: give up a basketball season, or play alongside his former enemy on the Centreville team.
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Overview

Jay Hirtle plays on the basketball team at Richmond Academy in a small rural town. The team to beat is Centreville, where star player Mike Murphy is seen as Richmond's number-one opponent. After the Hirtle house is destroyed by a fire, Jay's family moves in with his grandfather and the kids must switch schools until the end of the year. Jay has a choice: give up a basketball season, or play alongside his former enemy on the Centreville team.
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CM: Canadian Review of Materials
"Students who have had to change schools will understand Jay's struggles. Also readers will easily relate to Jay's sense of betrayal concerning his friends."
CM Magazine
"Students who have had to change schools will understand Jay's struggles. Also readers will easily relate to Jay's sense of betrayal concerning his friends."
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"It is refreshing for a book to deal with a realistic situation in an honest way without glossing things over in a make-believe perfect way."
Children's Literature - Veronica Bartles
Jay lives and breathes basketball. When he scores the winning points for the Richmond Rockets, beating their rival team—the regional champion Centreville Cougars—for the first time in years, he thinks life is pretty near perfect. But when his house unexpectedly catches fire and his family has to move in with his grandfather, Jay finds himself deep in enemy territory. Faced with a choice between playing basketball for his hated rivals, the Centreville Cougars, or sitting out the rest of the season, Jay doesn't know which is worse. Gunnery tells a moving tale about finding the best in a difficult situation, and moving forward when your life plans are falling apart. Faced with the loss of his home, his school, his friends and his team, Jay discovers that his love of the game provides the healing power he needs. I recommend this book for anyone facing unexpected changes and trials, even if they don't play basketball. Reviewer: Veronica Bartles
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  • ISBN-13: 9781550288261
  • Publisher: Lorimer, James & Company, Limited
  • Publication date: 5/1/2004
  • Series: Lorimer Sports Stories Series
  • Pages: 104
  • Age range: 10 - 13 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Rockets Rule! 9
2 Thin Ice 19
3 Fire! 26
4 Counter-Clockwise 36
5 Caution 44
6 Disappearing 54
7 Hitchhiking to Nowhere 63
8 Changing Colours 72
9 Out of Bounds 81
10 Courage 90
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 5, 2012

    Good my dudes and dudets

    Teaches you valubal skills in basketball

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