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Above the Rim
Written by Jen Bryant and Frank Morrison
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This is the story of hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor, one of the first professional African-American players and one of America’s greatest and most under-recognized athletes.
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Jen Bryant
Jen Bryant has written numerous books for young readers,including Georgia's Bones and A River ofWords, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award.Her book A Splash of Red (Knopf)received the Schneider Family Book Award and theNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. She lives inPennsylvania.
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