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Author
Series
Hot zone volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Micki Jordan, publicist to the brightest stars in the sports world, has decided to end her tomboy ways--effective immediately. While she will still be able to discuss the finer points of the two-man defense, she's transforming herself into one hot number. With any luck, she will no longer be known as 'just one of the guys'. Now, Micki wants to find a new man to fit her new life. Current leading contender Damian Fuller is a professional ballplayer...
Author
Series
Dare Nation volume 1
Publisher
CP Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Austin Prescott is a lot of things. Ex football player. Sports agent. And as of this morning? Father. Finding a baby on his doorstep should have been a joke but the pink sticky note and baby carrier she came in is deadly serious. What's an out of his depth bachelor to do? Call his tempting and beyond gorgeous executive assistant and beg her to move in. Quinnlyn Stone agrees to help Austin until he can straighten out his messy life. It's just another...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
44) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
45) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When your the smallest kid playing a big man's game, the challenges never stop-especially when your name is Danny Walker. Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw has returned home to Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather's will, which stipulates that, if she wants to collect her inheritance, Delaney must remain in town for an entire year. And she must have nothing to do with sexy Nick Allegrezza. Unfortunately, Nick is as irresistible as ever and Delaney must truly decide if he is truly, madly the man of her heart.
Author
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Whitecap volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Beau Wade left his small hometown of Whitecap, Oregon, he swore to himself he'd never go back. But when his NFL career goes up in smoke, that's exactly what he finds himself doing.
Not much has changed in the ten years he's been gone. Gossip still spreads through town like wildfire, Dropped Anchor is still the local's favorite bar, and the woman he's been secretly in love with most of his life still hates his guts.
Presley Fields is even more...
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky 'tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents. Enjoy Nate and his friends' mostly hapless sports encounters through not-always-highlight-reel moments in the all-color Big Nate: Game On. Includes...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 136
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Jessie's soccer teammate Kayla is such a talented player that she's invited to be the mascot at an International soccer tournament in Brazil! But then an anonymous letter arrives insisting she doesn't deserve to have the honor. Who is trying to ruin Kayla's reputation? The Boxcar Children must find out!
52) Blazewrath Games
Author
Series
Blazewrath volume 1
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first ever World Cup appearance, and when Puerto Rico's Runner, the only player without a dragon steed, is kicked off the team, she's given the chance. But when she discovers that a former...
53) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Series
Rip and Red volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"From the first morning with their odd new teacher fifth grade is full of shocking surprises for best friends Rip and Red" --
Author
Series
Derby daredevils volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"School's out, and the Derby Daredevils are excited to spend all summer tearing up the track. But, the coaches have something special planned: the Austin league is heading to Dallas for a week of roller derby sleepaway camp! Tomoko could not be more excited—she loves roller derby and her team. Plus, she's been going camping with her uncle every summer since she can remember. She's got all the gear and the skills she needs for two weeks in the great...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 134
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The winter sports season is here, and the Aldens are excited about all the snow activities--especially snowboarding. But soon they find themselves in the middle of a mystery surrounding a star athlete and a stolen snowboard"--
58) Cars 2
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Lightning McQueen and his best friend Mater compete in the World Grand Prix, the road is filled with hilarious surprises, especially when Mater gets caught up in an adventure of international espionage"--Provided by publisher.
59) Iris
Author
Series
Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Iris Marshall loves her job as an official for the European League of (American) Football. So, why did she say yes to being a courier that one time for the CIA? Not sure, but now, she's in an international thriller that has her on the run from a killer. And worse, the person she's running with is arrogant, bossy, wide-receiver Hudson Bly. Hudson's football days are nearly over. So yes, he agreed to be a patriot, do his part for the USA and courier...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lu's talent for running track makes her a new best friend — and tests her mettle as she navigates the school's social cliques.
Miss Garrett's classroom is like every other at our school. White kids sit on one side and black kids on the other. I'm one of the few middle-rowers who split the difference.
Sixth-grader Lu Olivera just wants to keep her head down and get along