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1) Beartown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
Author
Series
Beartown volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success -- and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The owner of a small local gym enters a dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas in order to save his facility from the owner of a corporate fitness center.
Peter LaFleur is a charismatic underachiever and the proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe's. The facility's ecclectic cleintele is decidedly less-than-your-average Joes. Peter's humble gym catches the eye of White Goodman, the egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym. White places a foreclosing attorney...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney have spent their entire lives on Rainbow Lane, but they dream of something bigger. So when a poker tournament comes to town, Dusti is determined to win enough money to leave. Enlisting expert Kieron O'Brian to teach her the game, sparks begin to fly as they play their hands. But Kieron refuses to stand in the way of her dream, even if it means losing her forever...After a year of traveling, Ronny Logan is settling into...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"For the first time ever, in Inside Edge, veteran Washington Post sportswriter Christine Brennan chronicles a season on the skating circuit, introducing us to the sport's current stars as well as to some of the youngest Olympic hopefuls for 1998. Woven into the narrative are some of figure skating's grandest names: Peggy Fleming, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, and Kristi Yamaguchi." "In Inside Edge we meet Michelle Kwan and Nicole Bobek,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Poppy's big dreams lead her to Paris for the world games ice skating championship. Nervous but ever courageous and supported by her family she embarks upon the adventure head-on. Poppy meets a snowboarding panda, a Maltese who skies, and two fellow skaters, a crane and a Kangaroo. She begins to realize that although these animals look different, act different, and are from different places, they are all the same at heart
11) Uncle Drew
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a young man spends his life savings to enter a team into the Rucker Classic street ball tournament, he calls upon an elderly player and his former teammates for help.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A bank executive and former amateur golfer struggling with his faith after an unexpected tragedy. Faced with doubts about himself, his purpose, and his belief in God, Joe is stunned when God tells him that he's been chosen to inspire the world and play in a world championship golf tournament. Guided by God's eccentric personal messenger, Herb, Joe learns that the seemingly impossible is possible, through faith, family, and second chances.
13) Final round
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When a golf pro is found dead on the eve of the Masters golf tournament, tour player and suspect Connor Cross teams with Augusta, Georgia detective Nikki O'Brien to investigate the case.
Author
Series
Arly Hanks mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) is perceived of as a two-bit hick town, filled with one-bit hicks. But Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanan seeks to change that perception with her latest schemeá charity golf tournament. This presents a bit of a challenge, since no one in Maggody plays golf and there is no course. But when the prize for the first hole-in-one is announcedá top of the line bass boatńearly everyone in town develops a new-found interest in the sport....
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious boy named Daichi will stop at nothing until he defeats Tyson and becomes the National Beyblading champion. But when he and Tyson battle, their Beyblades release ancient forces that become the evil Shadow-Bladers who vow to destroy mankind."
18) The NBA finals
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The NBA Finals is one of Sports' Greatest Championships! Since the first championship in 1947, hundreds of thousands of people have followed the seven-game battle. Now, young readers can learn about the NBA Finals' history, the famous teams and players, the spectacular dunks, and the future of the sport from in their library. Informative sidebars add to the high impact photographs and easy-to-read text, bringing Sports' Greatest Championships to readers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The MVP club decides to sell popcorn for their basketball tournament fundraiser, but the friends' plan changes when they realize that they have a friend who may need the money more than they do.