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Bobby Byington has always had to navigate his father's alcoholism and anger, but things are looking up. His father has stopped drinking, his mother is back home, and his basketball team is winning games. But two new problems surface when his ""smart"" girlfriend is bullied by a resentful schoolmate and a fellow team member is bullied by an abusive father. This is the second novel in the No Name series.

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It's good to see the language and traditions of the Native American experience so prominently woven throughout a straightforward sports story. --Booklist (08/30/2017) The basketball action is clear and engaging, and readers so inclined will wish they could play under Coach Robinson. A lesson in sympathy, delivered with heart. -- (08/30/2017)

It's good to see the language and traditions of the Native American experience so prominently woven throughout a straightforward sports story.-- Booklist The basketball action is clear and engaging, and readers so inclined will wish they could play under Coach Robinson. A lesson in sympathy, delivered with heart. -- Kirkus Reviews

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Tim Tingle is an Oklahoma Choctaw and an award-winning author and storyteller. Tim performs a Choctaw story before Chief Batton's State of the Nation address at every Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival. In June 2011, Tim spoke at the Library of Congress and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2016 he was featured at Choctaw Days, a celebration at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Tim's great-great-grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835. In 1992, Tim retraced the trail to Choctaw homelands in Mississippi, a journey that inspired his first book, Walking the Choctaw Road. Tim's first Pathfinders novel, Danny Blackgoat: Navajo Prisoner, was an American Indian Youth Literature Awards honor book in 2014. In 2018, Tim received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. That same year, A Name Earned, the third book in his No Name series for young readers, earned a Kirkus starred review.

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