Fiction
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Born in Sin (Swimming)
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| Author: |
Evelyn Coleman |
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Keisha could become both an Olympic swimmer and a doctor, if only she can overcome everyone's assumption that because she was "born in sin" (i.e. born POOR) she's doomed to stay in the projects forever. |
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Bull Catcher (Baseball)
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| Author: |
Alden Carter |
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An exciting book for baseball fans, this story follows Neil through four years of high school in his roles as son, grandson, friend, boyfriend and catcher for his school baseball team. |
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Crossing Jordan (Running)
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| Author: |
Adrian Fogelin |
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Twelve-year old runners, Jemmie & Cass call themselves "Chocolate Milk," and these new best friends and neighbors share everything, including Jane Eyre. But, can their bond overcome their parents' racial prejudices |
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Damage (Football)
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| Author: |
A.M. Jenkins |
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Are football and the hottest girl in school enough to shake Austin out of his severe depression? Will his friends and family even notice? |
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Danger Zone (Basketball)
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| Author: |
David Klass |
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An exciting story about competitive high school basketball and international terrorism, in which Jimmy Doyle, a small-town sports hero from Minnesota travels to Los Angeles, then on to Europe, and comes face-to-face with racial tensions and the complexities of the wider world. |
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Downriver (White Water Rafting)
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| Author: |
Will Hobbs |
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Rafting the San Juan River is too tame a proposition for Jessie and her fellow "Hoods in the Woods" (members of an Outward Bound type program). The wilder Colorado River is more to their taste, and they'll break a few rules for the thrill of the white water. |
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Eight Seconds (Rodeo)
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| Author: |
Joan Ferris |
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Childhood heart surgery hasn't slowed John down any. But lately, he is convinced there is something wrong with his heart. In his struggling friendship with a fellow rodeo bull rider, he comes to realize that his heart problems have nothing to do with that long-ago surgery. |
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Extra Innings (Baseball)
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| Author: |
Robert Newton Peck |
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Sixteen-year-old Tate survives a terrible plane crash that kills his parents and ends his hopes of a baseball career, but he only begins to truly heal when he spends time with his adopted great-aunt Vidalia and hears her childhood stories about life with a traveling baseball team during the Depression era. |
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Fifteen Love (Tennis)
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| Author: |
Robert Corbett |
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How can a shy tennis player and a shy violinist find a way to get what they really want- each other? |
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Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Boxing)
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| Author: |
Marcus Zuzak |
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Without telling their parents, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as boxers to help boost their family's finances and end up having to fight each other in the ring, learning a lot about themselves in the process. |
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Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems
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Various |
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These exciting stories relate the adventures of young women who compete in softball, basketball, synchronized swimming, tetherball, soccer, football and horseback riding. |
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Gold Dust (Baseball)
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| Author: |
Chris Lynch |
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Napoleon moves from the Caribbean to racially-tense Boston in 1975 and meets Richard, who loves baseball and the Red Sox, but their friendship faces many obstacles. |
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Head Above Water (Swimming)
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| Author: |
S.L. Rottman |
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While juggling a new boyfriend with an attitude, a mentally challenged brother who idolizes her, and potential star status on the swim team, Skye struggles to keep her "head above water" and be true to herself. |
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High Heat (Baseball)
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| Author: |
Carl Deuker |
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Shane Hunter's life turns upside down after his father's arrest and suicide, but he finds his balance again with the help of the coach and teammates on his new high school baseball team. |
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Home of the Braves (Soccer)
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| Author: |
David Klass |
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Joe is the captain of the soccer and wrestling teams in a tough New Jersey high school. When a soccer phenom from Brazil moves to town, he shakes up everything- tensions mount between the school's football and soccer players, friendships are tested, and Joe is forced to start thinking about his future. |
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Ironman: A Novel (Triathalon)
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| Author: |
Chris Crutcher |
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Training for the triathalon, a running, swimming and bicycling competition, and a school anger management class, help seventeen-year-old Bo deal with his biggest problem, his father. |
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Juice (Football)
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| Author: |
Eric Walters |
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Michael, "Moose", is finally a star player on his high school football team, but his new coach is tempting him with dreams of fame while pushing him to take illegal steroids. |
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Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (Basketball)
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| Author: |
John Feinstein |
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College basketball star, Chip Graeber, is being blackmailed to lose the championship game at the NCAA Final Four in New Orleans. Steven and Susan Carol, co-winners of the USBWA "Teen Writer's Contest," are about to get the scoop of their young careers, as they cover the games and try to save the day! |
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Losing is Not An Option: Stories
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| Author: |
Rich Wallace |
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Nine interwoven stories reveal the life experiences of Ron as he matures as an athlete and in his personal life moving from middle school through high school. |
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My 13th Season (Baseball)
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| Author: |
Kristi Roberts |
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Fran finds it tough to keep her dream alive of playing professional baseball after her mother dies, her father retreats from her life and her coach wants her off the team because she is a girl. |
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My Underrated Year (Football & Tennis)
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| Author: |
Randy Powell |
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Roger's sophomore year will be "his year." It's rumored that he will make the varsity football team and he'll have the number one slot on the tennis team. When Paul and Mary Jo Mountain move to town though, Roger will have to dig deeper to keep his year on track. |
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Necessary Roughness (Football)
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| Author: |
Marie G. Lee |
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Football is life to the town of Iron River, Minnesota. To Chan Kim and his Korean family, it may be the best way for the Los Angeles transplants to fit in. |
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Night Hoops (Basketball)
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| Author: |
Carl Deuker |
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Nick Abbott learns a lot, sometimes the hard way, about basketball, teamwork and friendship during his first year in high school. |
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Offsides (Soccer)
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| Author: |
Erik E. Esckilsen |
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When Tom Gray, a Mohawk Indian, boycotts his new school's soccer team because of their Warrior mascot, he makes friends with a group of home-schooled teens, who have some pretty good soccer skills of their own. Their thrown-together "Boosters" team has something to prove. |
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On the Run (Marathon Running)
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| Author: |
Michael Coleman |
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For his involvement in a theft, Luke is sentenced to an unusual community service project: he will serve as a guide runner for the blind daughter of his victim. Friendship and trust blossom as the two train for the London Marathon, but will Luke's past get in the way of his potential? |
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Pinned (Wrestling)
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| Author: |
Albert Martino |
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High school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane come from different backgrounds and different areas of New Jersey, but they both deal with family problems, romantic complications and fierce competition before they come face to face in the State Wrestling Championships. |
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Restless: A Ghosts Story (Football & Cross Country)
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| Author: |
Rich Wallace |
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Trying to excel in both football and cross-country track at the same time, Herbie must also deal with his ability to see the "stuck" spirits of the dead in Sturbridge, Pennsylvania. When two of those spirits take a personal interest in Herbie, his nightly runs through the cemetery become more than just sports training. |
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Running Loose (Football & Track)
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| Author: |
Chris Crutcher |
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Louie is banned from sports at Trout High when he walks off the football field to protest an illegal hit, ordered by his coach. With the support of his family and friends, Louie learns to either let go of all the negative things in his life, or to go around them to pursue his strengths. |
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Shots on Goal (Soccer)
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| Author: |
Rich Wallace |
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Sturbridge, PA is full of sports stars. This time, it's soccer season, and the Sturbridge players deal with friendship, romance, and great soccer action as they try to become league champions. |
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Slam! (Basketball)
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| Author: |
Walter Dean Myers |
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Living in the heart of New York City, "Slam" Harris is great on the basketball court, but as he struggles through his junior year of high school, he realizes he needs more than hoop skills to succeed in life. |
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Slot Machine (various sports)
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| Author: |
Chris Lynch |
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At summer orientation camp ("NOT a sports recruitment camp") for their new high school, Elvin and his friends try to discover their "slots" (i.e. where their athletic strengths lie) for the coming year. But, what if Elvin's strengths have nothing to do with athletics? |
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Summerland (Baseball)
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| Author: |
Michael Chabon |
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In this unusual and clever sports fantasy, Ethan Feld, the worst player on his Clam Island WA baseball team, is sure that the strange beings from a parallel world must be wrong when they choose him as the savior of their land and culture. |
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Tangerine (Soccer)
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| Author: |
Edward Bloor |
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Soccer player, Paul, doesn't get the same attention his football star brother does, but in their new home of Tangerine, Florida, Paul learns to stand up for himself as his brother's actions finally reveal his true colors. |
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Travel Team (Basketball)
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| Author: |
Mike Lupica |
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Not making it onto the travel basketball team is one of twelve-year-old Danny Walker's biggest disappointments, but with the help of his estranged father, who is still dealing with his own past failures, he might just turn this event into his biggest victory. |
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Whale Talk (Swimming)
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| Author: |
Chris Crutcher |
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T.J. has no time for intolerance or injustice, so when a disabled student is harassed for wearing his dead brother's letter jacket to school, T.J. becomes Chriss champion. In spite of his aversion to school sports, T.J. agrees to put together a swim team, a motley group of "misfits" who discover they have a lot in common, and a desire to prove themselves to themselves. |
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