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Dwyane Wade / Michelle Hitchcock.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Blue banner biographyPublisher: Hockessin, Delaware : Mitchell Lane Publishers, [2016]Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781680200911 (library bound)
  • 1680200917 (library bound)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The bus ride -- Life lessons -- Coaching lessons -- Taking the Heat -- Wade's World -- Career statistics -- Awards and records -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Works consulted -- On the internet -- Index.
Summary: Dwyane Wade grew up on the South Side of Chicago where poverty, drugs, and gangs dominated the neighborhood. Thanks to the sacrifice of his sister Tragil, Wade's life too another path when she took him to live with his father. Basketball helped Wade and his father connect. Through the support and advice of Wade's basketball coaches during his youth, he became a better basketball player and a better man. Wade is the first NBA player to win full custody of his children. Wade ranks fatherhood first. The rest of his time is dedicated to his team the Miami Heat and his work with Wade's World Foundation.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography Wade, D. H674 Available 33111008348357
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dwyane Wade grew up on the South Side of Chicago where poverty, drugs, and gangs dominated the neighborhood. Thanks to the sacrifice of his sister Tragil, Wade's life too another path when she took him to live with his father. Basketball helped Wade and his father connect. Through the support and advice of Wade's basketball coaches during his youth, he became a better basketball player and a better man. Wade is the first NBA player to win full custody of his children. Wade ranks fatherhood first. The rest of his time is dedicated to his team the Miami Heat and his work with Wade's World Foundation.

Includes webography.

The bus ride -- Life lessons -- Coaching lessons -- Taking the Heat -- Wade's World -- Career statistics -- Awards and records -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Works consulted -- On the internet -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dwyane Wade grew up on the South Side of Chicago where poverty, drugs, and gangs dominated the neighborhood. Thanks to the sacrifice of his sister Tragil, Wade's life too another path when she took him to live with his father. Basketball helped Wade and his father connect. Through the support and advice of Wade's basketball coaches during his youth, he became a better basketball player and a better man. Wade is the first NBA player to win full custody of his children. Wade ranks fatherhood first. The rest of his time is dedicated to his team the Miami Heat and his work with Wade's World Foundation.

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