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Stotan!
by Chris Crutcher Find this book in our catalog.
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Four high school buddies and members of the swim team accept the challenge to participate in Stotan week--a week of rigorous swim training that pushes them beyond physical pain and tests their moral fiber, changing their lives forever. Now with new cover art. More... |
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Throwing Like a Girl
by Weezie Kerr Mackey Find this book in our catalog.
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No one asks Ella how she feels about moving halfway across the country in the middle of her sophomore year. But she ends up in Texas anyway, without plans for the weekend or friends to guide her through the alien campus of her new private school. So she decides to try out for the softball teamand she makes it! Now if only she knew how to throw, hit, and field the ball.... More... |
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Going for the Record
by Julie A. Swanson Find this book in our catalog.
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Seventeen-year-old Leah Weiczynkowski, about to begin her senior year of high school, is on the brink of realizing her dream -- playing soccer for the under-eighteen national team, her gateway to the World Cup and the Olympics. Everything she's worked for in her young life has been about this moment.... More... |
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Players
by Joyce Sweeney Find this book in our catalog.
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Senior Corey Brennan is the star shooter and newly elected captain of St. Philip's varsity basketball -- a team that's poised to make all-city. There is only one slot to fill on the roster, and the team chooses hot-shot transfer student Noah Travers for its second string.... More... |
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Hard Hit
by Ann Warren Turner Find this book in our catalog.
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In this latest work from the author of the groundbreaking memoir "Learning to Swim," 16-year-old high school baseball star Mark has an enviable life. However, when his father is diagnosed with cancer, everything Mark ever believed in is called into question. More... |
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Losing Is Not an Option
by Rich Wallace Find this book in our catalog.
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Ron is watcher, it seems. He watches his pick-up basketball team-five guys trying to fit together on the court. He watches Dawn on the dance floor, and that tiny star tattoo on her shoulder. He watches Darby run, her short legs all sweat and muscle. He watches his friends veer off-and up-into popularity.... More... |
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Shots on Goal
by Rich Wallace Find this book in our catalog.
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It's soccer season, and sophomore Bones Austin and his team are struggling to make it to the district play-offs--against all odds. To make matters worse, Bones has a crush on the girlfriend of his best friend, Joey. Bones and Joey are forced to learn a little something about teamwork, even when hard times seem to be tearing them apart. Rich Wallace returns to Sturbridge, Pennsylvania, in his stunning follow-up to "Wreslting Strubirdge, in Knopf Paperback for the first time. More... |
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Painting the Black
by Carl Deuker Find this book in our catalog.
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When a hard ball is coming at you fast, and when it's dancing, too, every single nerve in your body is alert and ready. Your eyes are wide open, and the adrenaline is pumping. It's not a feeling you want to give up, any more than you want to get off a roller coaster.... More... |
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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
by Madeleine Blais Find this book in our catalog.
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Following one championship season in the lives of the Lady Hurricanes, a high school basketball team from Amherst, Massachusetts, this involving personal account offers a riveting portrait of contemporary female adolescence and the development of girls' self-esteem. "Better than a pep talk".--New Woman. More... |
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Roughnecks
by Thomas Cochran Find this book in our catalog.
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Once in a while you get a second chance. For Travis Cody this is one of those times. His team, the Oil Camp Roughnecks, is facing the Pineview Pelicans for the state championship. Travis will have forty-eight minutes head-to-head with rival Jericho Grooms.... More... |
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Tears of a Tiger
by Sharon Mills Draper Find this book in our catalog.
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With perceptiveness and compassion, Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastating tragedy. More... |
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Home of the Braves
by David Klass Find this book in our catalog.
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As Joe Brickman heads into his senior year, he's looking forward to soccer season and dating Kristine. But scary, unpredictable things start happening at Lawndale High, as past violence returns to haunt the present. More... |
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You Don't Know Me
by David Klass Find this book in our catalog.
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This acclaimed novel for young adults features a teenage boy named John who is by turns darkly funny, achingly self-aware, and very afraid. More... |
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The Rhyming Season
by Edward Averett Find this book in our catalog.
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Seventeen-year-old Brenda Jacobsen comes from a family of tall people. In the small logging town of Hemlock, Washington, being tall makes you better at trimming the high spots on trees or at playing basketball. Brenda's life has always revolved around basketball, particularly the career of her older brother, Benny, the town's rising star.... More... |
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7 Days at the Hot Corner
by Terry Trueman Find this book in our catalog.
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A Michael L. Printz Honor Book author delivers a coming-of-age novel with grit and power. High school baseball jock Scott Latimer learns his best friend is gay. As Scott's team goes to the championships, he must step up to the plate and reexamine his whole life. More... |
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Ball Don't Lie
by Matt de La Pena Find this book in our catalog.
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Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He's a white boy living and playing in a world where he doesn't seem to belong.... More... |
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Game
by Walter Dean Myers Find this book in our catalog.
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A "New York Times" bestselling author and National Book Award finalist delivers this novel about a high-school basketball player looking for success on and off the court. More... |
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Ironman
by Chris Crutcher Find this book in our catalog.
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Now with a stunning new look, this award-winning novel is the story of a high school triathlete who is close to being expelled because of his explosive temper. Assigned to an anger management class, he addresses his difficult relationship with his father. More... |
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PrettyTough
by Liz Tigelaar Find this book in our catalog.
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Bubbly, blond Krista Brown is pretty and popular. Her sister, Charlie, is more interested in braving the Malibu waves. But when Krista and Charlie are both recruited to the schools soccer team, they are forced to face their differences. More... |
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