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Ball Boy Kindle Edition

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Gray Taylor wants to be remarkable but isn’t. Gray gets a chance to change this when his mother moves him from Los Angeles to the dying Kansas town of Beaudelaire, where Gray finds basketball. Gray uses basketball to become someone people notice. And later to save Beaudelaire from itself. Ball Boy is a book about growing up, about the importance of community, and about the power of finding the thing that makes you feel special.

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Feb. 2 2021
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"A coming-of-age tale any sports fan will love."

--Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash

"A fast-paced underdog story. You'll feel like you're at a high school game--missed shots and all. But Ball Boy is about so much more than basketball. It's a celebration of community, grit, and perseverance."

--Amy Meyerson, bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The Imperfects

"This book is just a flat-out fun read. It's one of those books about growing up that feels authentic without being self-serious. The characters are so real that I immediately hooked into them and Paul's writing style is so sure of itself that I just felt like I was along for a ride, which is my favorite part of a good novel."

--Justin Halpern, bestselling author of Sh*t My Dad Says and I Suck At Girls

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Paul Shirley played for 17 professional basketball teams in a nine-year career, including stops in Spain, Greece, Russia, and with three teams in the NBA. He's the author of two works of nonfiction: Can I Keep My Jersey? and Stories I Tell On Dates. Paul is the founder of Writers Blok, a co-writing space in Los Angeles, and The Process, a virtual co-working platform. Ball Boy is his first novel. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08TYCW9FZ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Bar Books (Feb. 2 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1128 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 241 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,059,715 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,938 in Sports Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #4,275 in Sports Fiction (Books)
- #16,125 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books)

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Paul is the author of two humor memoirs, a novel, and a how-to book. The first memoir (Can I Keep My Jersey?) chronicles three years in his stop-and-start professional basketball career. The second (Stories I Tell On Dates) chronicles an entire lifetime in his stop-and-start dating career.

His first novel, Ball Boy, follows the adventures of Gray Taylor, a 14-year-old who discovers basketball when his mother moves them from Los Angeles to small-town Kansas.

Paul lives in Denver, where he runs a co-working space and virtual platform called The Process, whose theory is outlined in his fourth book, The Process is the Product. Paul has also written for ESPN.com, Slate, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal, and FlipCollective.com, a website for writers he founded.

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Eric Brach

High school fun that's great for young readers

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2021

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Ball Boy reminds me of the books I read in grade school, when I looked at high schoolers as giants and athletes as heroes. Reading it reminded me of the feeling of lying on my stomach alone as a kid, a book held open on the floor between my hands and nothing else going on in the world.
If you read Matt Christopher books as a kid, you know that feeling, and Ball Boy evokes it wonderfully.

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Nat

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Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021

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I read “Ball Boy” cover to cover in one day, and my copy arrived with magical powers: As a fellow writer, I had been struggling to get past the idea stage for my second book and put pencil to paper, but as soon as I got my hands on “Ball Boy” I couldn’t stop writing for two days straight! I have all three of Paul Shirley’s books in my home library, and they are all enjoyable, edifying and inspirational. Can’t wait for the next one!

Michelle Decker

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Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021

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It is a great read. The story and the characters are especially relatable to anybody who has gone through their formative years in small town America. There is a little bit of Gray Taylor in all of us.

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Sophie Herbergs

An engaging, well-written, and humble story with personality

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2021

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Ball Boy is an engaging story, written with such flair and modesty that it makes me want to be part of the Beaudelaire High School experience. Gray evolves into a great wise young man, and his personality is written in such a way that there are moments you don't know whether to hug him or yell at him. Great read!

Brian Jesiolowski

Great read!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021

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This book was awesome! Reminded me so much of my own childhood growing up in a small town and playing basketball. A breeze of a read and entertaining throughout as it also made me reminisce of the trials and tribulations of being a kid in middle school/high school

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