'There were no basketball books with a girl as the main character," said Barbara Carroll Roberts, "so I decided to write one."Her first novel, "Nikki on the Line," is just what her daughter, Helen, was looking for in elementary and middle school.Helen, who played basketball from second grade through college, found few books that showed girls actively involved in competitive sports. In contrast, her older brother had his pick of tales of sports-playing boys.Roberts wanted [...]
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