Book List - Sports
| Roughneck Cochran, Thomas View it in Our Catalog Travis Cody needs to win the game of his life when his Oil Camp roughnecks go to compete in the Louisiana State High School championship. Can he be tough enough, like his Grandfather "Pawpaw" was? | |
| Derby Girl Cross, Shauna View it in Our Catalog 16-year-old Bliss Cavendar doesn't fit in at her small Texas hometown high school. On a trip to Austin though she finds out about the all-girl Roller Derby league and soon becomes the star player on the Hurl Scouts team. This soon to be a feature film book will remind readers that there are different types of sports for all different types of people. | |
| Eagle Blue: a Team, a Tribe, and a High School Baketball Seaon in Artic Alaska D'Orso, Michael 796.252 F736Do View it in Our Catalog Did you know that Alaska is home to more than fifty high school basketball terms? The competition is fierce and requires teams to travel statewide with small rural Alaskan teams playing against larger city teams. Follow the Fort Yukon Eagles through their dynamic 2004 season. Experience this real-life drama as the team struggles to participate despite family, financial, and wether problems. | |
| Soccer Chick Rules Fitzgerald, Dawn View it in Our Catalog For Tess Munro, the varied sports covered in her gym class are the only meaningful things to be found in school. So when the school's budget is threatened with the possibility of losing after-school programs including the sports - Tess has to step up to the plate and remind voters to support the needs of youth in order to get a school levy to pass. During the process she learns more about herself and what she contributes to her soccer team, her school and her community. | |
| Go Big or Go Home Hobbs, Will View it in Our Catalog Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom. | |
| Jake, Reinvented Korman, Gordon. View it in Our Catalog Jake, the new guy on the football team, mysteriously appears one summer and begins to throw the best parties in town. Everyone wants to be his friend and girls want to be his girlfriend. He has eyes only for Didi, the girlfriend of Todd, hottest guy in school and the star player on the football team. Where did Jake come from and what is he trying to do with all of this newfound popularity? | |
| Off Season Murdock, Catherine View it in Our Catalog Off Season is the sequel to Dairy Queen. D.J. and the rest of the Schwenk family have to deal with a number of challenges and hardships within their household and while at school. Sports continue to be the highlight of D.J.'s life, but she has to come to terms with the fact that college is just around the corner for her and money is tighter than she thought. | |
| Dairy Queen Murdock, Catherine Gilbert View it in Our Catalog Sixteen year old D.J. Schwenk is capable of single-handedly running her family's Wisconsin dairy farm. Her grades are suffering and she's mourning the loss of two estranged brothers who have been recruited to play competitive college football. Because of her prodigious work ethic and the football talent that seems to run in the family, she's called upon to train the quarterback from her high school's rival team. In the process, D.J. discovers the complications of first love as well as the purpose of her life. | |
| Game Myers, Walter Dean View it in Our Catalog Determined to make it big because of his great basketball skills, Drew Larson sees his college dreams fading after the coach replaces him with another teammate; making him realize that he must focus on more than athletics if he wants to get ahead in the game of life. | |
| Amazing Grace Shull, Megan View it in Our Catalog Teen tennis superstar Grace Kincaid is starting to learn that being an overnight sensation isn't all it's cracked up to be. With fame and fortune just a backswing away, Grace decides that all she really wants to be is normal. | |
| 7 Days in the Hot Corner Trueman, Terry View it in Our Catalog In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky; that's why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time. This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship, and a pro career is on the line. Instead, everything he always counted on comes crashing down at the same time, and his whole life is like one blazing hot corner; full of deadly line drives and crazy "bad hops." Scott can't believe the awful stuff coming his way, but it's time to find out whether he has what it takes to play the hot corner; on the baseball diamond and off it. | |
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