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1) QB 1
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
3) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
7) The turnover
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Molly is surprised to learn from her dying mother that Josh Cameron, a star player with the Boston Celtics and media darling, is her father, and once she gets to know him, Molly comes to realize why her mom kept his identity a secret for so long.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Charlie's skill at fantasy football gains the attention of both the local media and the owner of a professional football team.
10) Lone stars
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.--
11) Hero
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
12) True legend
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
13) Defending champ
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the girls soccer team learns it has been canceled due to budget cuts, they come up with a plan to raise the necessary funds through a face-off with the boys' team, which is led by sneering superstar Chase Gwinn.
14) Last man out
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder."--
Author
Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date" --
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.