La Rue... Et le basket!

Low intermediate/Intermediate (Grades 6 and up) Theme: Basketball - choosing life on the streets or school and sports. Simon Paquette is the leader of gang in a rough area of Montreal. He is also a very gifted basketball player. Simon has left school to live his life on the streets. Thanks to the encouragement of a young police officer, who also coaches youth basketball, Simon makes the decision to return to his studies and becomes the star player on his school team. This book features a fiction story, a separate fact section that describes interesting details about the sport, over 25 comprehension and vocabulary activities and a lexicon.