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The Rhyming Season
by Edward Averett
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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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Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
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THE TRUTH LIES BENEATHPaul Fisher's older brother is a high school football star, but to Paul he's no hero. Paul's own game is soccer, which he plays even though he has to wear thick glasses because of a mysterious eye injury. When the Fishers move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul tries to make sense of things.... More...
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Roughnecks
by Thomas Cochran
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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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Born in Sin
by Evelyn Coleman
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Malik got out of the swing and walked in back of me. "I've seen you swim, girl. You're the best I've ever seen. And whenever you ready you can win. Or, you can give up", he said, placing his hand in the middle of my back. "Just remember one thing", he said, pushing me gently, so gently, I could barely feel his hand as I swung up into the air.... More...
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Fifteen Love
by Robert Corbert
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New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age, 2004 "Funny, quirky, and satisfyingly romantic."-- "School Library Journal" "Where ["Fifteen Love"] really shines is in its intimate yet universal detailing of Will and Mia's angst-filled conversations, petty jealousies, bad viola jokes, self-doubts, and personal recriminations .... More...
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Crackback
by John Coy
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In this vibrant, powerful debut, Coy pens the gripping story of a young man who discovers that the hits he takes on the football field don't compare with the ones he faces in life. More...
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Ironman
by Chris Crutcher
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Bo Brewster has been at war with his father for as long as he can remember. Following angry outbursts at his football coach and English teacher that have cost him his spot on the football team and moved him dangerously close to expulsion from school, he turns to the only adult he believes will listen--Larry King. More...
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Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
by Chris Crutcher
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These six stories from the acclaimed author present characters from some of his best-loved novels and create some unforgettable new personalities in tales of love, death, bigotry, heroism, and coming of age. More...
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Whale Talk
by Chris Crutcher
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There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway.A group of misfits brought together by T.J. Jones (the J is redundant) to find their places in a school that has no place for them, the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to carve out their own turf.... More...
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Ball Don't Lie
by Matt de La Pena
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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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High Heat
by Carl Deuker
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Like the game of baseball, life is quirky and unpredictable, as Shane Hunter discovers in the spring of his sophomore year. Suddenly and without warning his life of privilege is turned upside down--and just as suddenly, life begins to seem utterly without fairness or purpose to him. More...
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Night Hoops
by Carl Deuker
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While trying to prove that he is good enough to on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street. More...
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Offsides
by Erik E. Esckilsen
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To Coach Dempsey, the Warriors teams and their Indian mascot symbolize the honor and glory of the Southwind High School athletic tradition. But soccer star Tom Gray sees little more than a denigrating cultural stereotype in the team's mascot and the stern, war-painted Indian-head profile.... More...
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Last Shot
by John Feinstein
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Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true!But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court.... More...
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Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
by John Feinstein
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Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are sitting on the biggest sports scandal of the decade. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams team failed its drug tests. But how can they prove it? More...
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Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open
by John Feinstein
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Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson return in another fast-paced, action-packed sports mystery from bestselling sports writer John Feinstein.
The two hopeful sports reporters have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four, and when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the US Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well.... More...
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