• The Final Cut
  • The Final Cut
  • The All-Star Sports Story Series
  • Written by Fred Bowen
  • Age 8-12
  • ISBN: 978-1-56145-646-8
  • Language: English

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The Final Cut


Four friends who share a love of basketball have to go through tryouts for the school team. But will they all make the team?

Ryan, Zeke, Eli, and Miles are four close friends who share a love of sports, especially basketball. When it's time for basketball team tryouts, they spend hours practicing together, compete in a local 3-on-3 tournament, and carefully compute their chances of making the team.

The tryouts are a test not only of their athletic skills, but of their friendship as well. In the end, each boy learns how to cope with winning and losing (both on and off the court), the value of practice and competition, and the true meaning of friendship.

As with the previous titles in this acclaimed series, author Fred Bowen offers up another winning combination of fast-paced sports action and off-the-court drama. In the sports history epilogue, readers learn about other famous players, like Michael Jordan, who didn't make their high school basketball teams the first time around.

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Fred Bowen

Fred Bowen is the author of Peachtree’s popular Fred Bowen Sports Story and All-Star Sport Story series. A lifelong sports fanatic, he has coached youth league baseball, basketball, and soccer. His kids’ sports column “The Score” appears each week in the KidsPost section of the Washington Post. Bowen lives in Maryland.

You can visit Fred Bowen’s website here.