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41) The turnover
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"--
43) One last shot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
For as long as he can remember, Malcolm has never felt like he was good enough. Not for his parents, who have always seemed at odds with each other, with Malcolm caught in between. And especially not for his dad, whose competitive drive and love for sports Malcolm has never shared. That is, until Malcolm discovers miniature golf, the one sport he actually enjoys. Maybe it's the way in which every hole is a puzzle to be solved. Or the whimsy of the...
45) Wingman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The other night, Trace Brewster, Max's best friend and star hockey player for the Hawks, scored on his own net and put the team's chances of qualifying for an upcoming tournament in jeopardy. Since then Trace has gone silent and is shutting everyone out. But Max thinks there's more going on with his friend than what happened on the ice. For one thing, there are bruises on Trace's face that he refuses to explain. Can Max find a way to get Trace to...
46) Shot clock
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After the death of his friend, Tony must work to make the basketball team, but when he gets the chance to join the squad as statistician, he must grapple with honoring the memory of his basketball-loving friend while also trying to fit in on the team.
47) Falling short
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won't change things at home--not without each other's help. This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on the school's basketball team. But will their friendship...
48) The prodigy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Seventeen-year-old golf prodigy Frank seems ready to blaze his way into Masters Tournament history, but his college plans are jeopardized by his father's sponsorship plans that threatens to ruin Frank's amateur status.
49) Sweet Buttercup
Author
Series
Silver Pony Ranch volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While staying at their grandmother's ranch, sisters Tori and Miranda are practicing to compete in different events at the local horse show--but Ashley, a rude and conceited girl who is stabling her pony at the ranch, is constantly criticizing everthing, their costumes, their ponies, Jewel and Buttercup, and generally draining the fun out of the summer.
50) Backfield boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When best friends Tom and Jason leave New York City for an elite, sports-focused boarding school in Virginia to play football, they find some coaches and teammates to be steeped in racism.
Author
Series
Invincible Girls Club volume 5
Description
"It's career week in Miss Taylor's class! When Lauren says that she wants to be a football announcer, some of her classmates laugh and ask how she could work in a sport she can't even play. Lauren is bummed out, especially since she knows a ton about football. She feels even worse when she wants to play kickball at recess and the boys won't let her join their teams. Instead of backing down, Lauren, Emelyn, Ruby, and Myka challenge them to a game--boys...
52) Soar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
Author
Formats
Description
"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects...
55) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
56) Headstrong
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In the wake of increasing concern over brain trauma in professional athletes, Patrick Link has crafted a story about a retired NFL linebacker who must deal with a family tragedy and his own suffering because of the violence of his chosen sport.Includes a conversation about brain injuries and sports with Dr. Robert Cantu, the Senior Advisor to the NFL Head, Neck, and Spine Committee.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Deidrie Henry,...
57) Across the floor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Football player Luc is forced to take a dance class, where he discovers an unexpected new passion.
Author
Series
Epoca volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After arriving at an elite sports academy. Rovi, an orphan, and Pretia, a cown princess, suspect that the school is infiltrated by an evil force, as they learn to master a magical power called grana and use it to save the world.
Author
Series
Big shots volume 1
Formats
Description
"Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his 'promising' career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life....