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Hoop City

Welcome to inner city high school basketball, a competitive world of great athletes and dreams of NBA stardom. A world where talent and expectations mix with youth, money, girls, and the distractions of city life, to create an explosive cocktail. After all, the bright lights up ahead can be blinding, and the business of ballin' gets ugly and dirty in a hurry. Six high school hoops teams. Six American cities. Six bumpy roads to the promised land. Hoop City is a six book series from EPIC Press.

Cover: Baltimore

Baltimore

Marcus is the latest star at an athletically prestigious Baltimore high school. In the fall, he starts at running back on the varsity football team and in the winter, he starts at shooting…

Cover: Chicago

Chicago

When Serge is recruited from the Sudan to come play basketball at a high profile prep school in Chicago, there are bigger obstacles than culture shock to contend with. His teammates are…

Cover: Detroit

Detroit

Isaiah is a hot-shot freshman, talented and hard-working enough to be on the varsity basketball team at one of the top private high schools in Detroit. The problem is, his family is breaking…

Cover: Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Paul is the top high school basketball player coming out of Los Angeles. He has the pick of any college that he wants. So what's eating at him? Well, life is hard growing up in Watts. Plus,…

Cover: New York City

New York City

Darnell is a talented high school basketball player from Brooklyn, primed to be the first to attend college in his family. But he can't seem to get out of his own way, making silly mistakes…

Cover: Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

When Dunbar High head coach Tony Wilson gets cancer, Julius Crawford, an unknown in coaching circles, is chosen by the athletic director to take over the team. At first the players balk at…

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