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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This story, based on the Cubs and Mets 1973 season follows the divergent paths of Joe Castle, a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs, and Warren Tracey, a hard-throwing Mets pitcher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language,and romance.
Author
Series
Guys read volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A year ago Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he makes his living playing golf in paradise, and everything should be perfect--but Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an impostor who doesn't deserve his success. Then Travis blows a tournament and is suspended for assaulting another player. His family and friends are shocked, and Travis realizes he needs to...
Author
Series
Once a runner novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid...
12) Hangman's game
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Book
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After losing his starting position as a college quarterback to a shoulder injury, Nick Gallow has remade himself as a punter. Now in his fifth year in the pros with the Philadelphia Sentinels, Nick spends most of his time on the sidelines. He no longer makes winning plays, and when the team visits a hospital, the sick kids would rather talk to the players they've actually heard of. But Nick is unexpectedly thrust back into the spotlight when he witnesses...
Author
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
John and Abby Reynolds, behaving like newlyweds after a near-divorce, are called upon to be beacons of faith to their children and the community when John, a high school coach, is paralyzed in an automobile accident caused by star football player Jake Daniels.
14) Full throttle
Author
Series
Hover car racer volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Despite not doing as well as others at the International Race School, Jason Chaser receives an invitation to a big tournament, but when his competition turns out to be his only friend at the school, Ariel, he is not so excited about the race.
15) Unbridled fury
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 62
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While Perfect Image recuperates from injuries, Melanie meets a Thoroughbred named Hi Jinx, a direct descendant of the famous racehorse Man O'War. Will she be able to get him to behave before he hurts someone?
16) Takedown
Author
Series
Winning season volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.
17) Starstruck
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 63
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
18) Stumptown Kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.
19) On the track
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 65
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Samantha and Tor find their wedding album as they prepare for the birth of their first child and remember the series of disasters that made Samantha think that maybe they weren't meant to get married.
20) Bridal dreams
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 65
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Samantha and Tor find their wedding album as they prepare for the birth of their first child and remember the series of disasters that made Samantha think that maybe they weren't meant to get married.
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