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Language
English
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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...
2) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Beat the buzzer and sink that three-pointer to win with Basketball Big Shots! From bestselling author Jake Maddox comes a collection that brings together three thrilling full-color graphic novels into one book. In A Taste for Victory, Hank tries to find balance and success with his two biggest passions in life-basketball and cooking. In Basketball Camp Champ, Ana goes to a summer basketball camp where she learns lessons both about her favorite game,...
Author
Series
Local legends volume 1
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Summer is around the corner, and Little League first baseman, Billy Kramer, is looking forward to playing another year with the LA Southgate Sharks. His plans are uprooted when his mother announces an unexpected move to rural Bennington, Nebraska. Billy's world is turned upside down. Billy hoped to find a new team that could compete at the same level as his former team. He soon finds that Bennington's local team, the Bunz Town Badgers, is composed...
Author
Series
Local legends volume 3
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
It was fourth and goal ... Jacoby Howard was the star quarterback, and I was the middle linebacker who was going to stop him from scoring. I glanced up at the scoreboard; it read :03; 21-17. Jacoby had to go through me to win the game. My teeth clenched as I crouched, ready to surge forward. As soon as the center moved the ball, I blitzed. I stayed low and dropped my shoulder pads just in time to meet Jacoby at the goal line. We connected with a loud...
Author
Series
Local legends volume 2
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ace basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance. With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking the record will be easy for him to do. However, T.D.'s life takes several unexpected twists and turns before he approaches the final game of his middle school career. After learning the hard way about disappointment...
8) Sports camp
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Riley Liston tries to fit in at Camp Olympia, a summer sports camp where he is one of the youngest boys.
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sylvester loves baseball and is excited to join his neighborhood team, but he is not a good hitter--until a mysterious stranger, Mr. Baruth, promises to make him one of the best players ever, and soon Sylvester is transformed into a kid who can only hit homers.
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve.
11) Play ball
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Children's Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Little Critter tries his hand at a variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, and soccer, while his dog Blue does his best to keep up. Includes activities.
12) The Last Green
Author
Series
Local legends volume 4
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Colt, a skilled junior golfer, has one huge problem... he falls apart when playing in front of a crowd. With the help of a new coach Colt starts to win, but then the fear comes back when he finds his coach has entered him into a big tournament. Will Colt let fear and anxiety win? Can he learn to play confidently in front of a crowd?
13) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it's...
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Language
English
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"Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia--a struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to keep in shape while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension. Until then, he watches his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Will loves playing center midfield on his middle school soccer team. This year, though, Will hasn't felt like himself: his stomach has been bothering him, and he has no energy at all. When his new doctor diagnoses him with Crohn's disease, Will hopes that means he'll start feeling better soon and he can get back to playing with his team before the season ends. But Will's new medicines come with all kinds of side effects, and his body needs to heal...
17) Goodnight soccer
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The perfect bedtime book for young soccer fans. From the opening kickoff to the final goal, a young girl says goodnight to her most beloved sport: soccer. With delightful, rhyming text and energetic art, acclaimed author Michael Dahl (Goodnight Baseball, Goodnight Football, Goodnight Hockey), along with illustrator Christina E. Forshay, captures the thrill and excitement of the world's most popular sport. This Sports Illustrated Kids picture book...
Author
Series
Campus diaries volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine-a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his...
20) Rivals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season. Told through flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews.
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