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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon is just seventeen years old when he and his South Sudanese teammates come to the United States to compete in a basketball tournament. The opportunity to be scouted by college coaches is a dream come true. Though he is an amazing athlete, his technical game needs work. And then Sooley receives devastating news from home: as a result of the civil war raging across South Sudan, his father is dead, his sister is missing, and...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When her school is shut down due to an asbestos problem, all-star pitcher Gabby Garcia is sent to an upscale private school that already has a star pitcher, and to make matters worse, she has trouble making friends and finding her place.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins. In doing so, she forms...
8) The contract
Author
Series
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
11) Game changers
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A new coach's flagrant racism, a teammate's endless sabotage, and local media interest make it difficult for Andi Carillo and Jeff Michaels to keep both of their basketball teams on track.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A perennial bestseller in the wizarding world and one of the most popular books in the Hogwarts School library, Quidditch Through the Ages contains all you will ever need to know about the history, the rules - and the breaking of the rules - of the noble sport of Quidditch. Packed with fascinating facts, this definitive guide by the esteemed Quidditch writer Kennilworthy Whisp charts the game's history from its early origins in the medieval mists...
13) The soccer star
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Come along with Billie as she sets out to prove that girls can play soccer too.
14) Un tiro perfecto
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
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Description
"Layla's hard work pays off when she moves from a substitute to starting player and captain of the basketball team, but her best friend and teammate Danika causes trouble"--Provided by publisher.
15) Soccer switch
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the coach of his middle school summer soccer team retires Andre, his friend Cullen, and their teammates are horrified, and when their new coach implements some highly unusual training methods Cullen is so frustrated that he quits the team--but Andre sticks with it, hoping that there is method in the madness that will lead to a championship.
17) Jaguar
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and colorful photographs describe the history and models of the Jaguar"--Provided by publisher.
18) Maserati
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and colorful photographs describe the history and models of the Maserati"--Provided by publisher.
19) Ford Mustang
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes the history and models of the Ford Mustang.
20) Lamborghini
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes the history and models of the Lamborghini.