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Here are some of our favorite sports stories! These titles can all be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Heat
by Mike Lupica
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
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Game Changer
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Anticipating an athletic scholarship and a promising career, eighth-grader KT Sutton blacks out in the middle of a championship game and awakens in a different world where her school days are consumed by athletic drills, where after-school sports are replaced by popular academic competitions and where she is reviled for her talents while her brainy brother is lauded for his math abilities. By the author of The Missing series.
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The Final Four
by Paul Volponi
Competing on the four remaining teams during the NCAA basketball championship, four young athletes desperately strive to realize respective dreams while looking back on the events that have led to the most important games of their lives.
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Ice Claw
by David Gilman
High in the French Pyrenees, Max Gordon's race to win an extreme sports challenge becomes a race to survive when he is accused of causing the death of a mysterious Basque monk who has predicted a cataclysmic ecological disaster.
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Bittersweet
by Sarah Ockler
Hudson Avery gave up a promising ice skating career after her parents divorced, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching a hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.
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The Edge
by Roland Smith
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-18-year-old climbers from around the world, but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
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Force Out
by Tim Green
The former NFL defensive end and best-selling author of The Dark Side of the Game follows the story of Joey and Zach, whose best friendship is tested when they are forced to compete for a single spot on a baseball team.
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Last Shot : a Final Four Mystery
by John Feinstein
After winning the prize of a press pass to New Orleans to watch the Final Four, Steven and his fellow winner, Susan Carol, delight in all the behind-the-scenes activities, but when they overhear a blackmail plot involving an MSU star player that could result in the big game being thrown, the two junior guest reporters know that it is up to them to break the story and put a stop to the devious plan. This book is the first in a series; in each story Steve and Susan Carol solve a mystery connected with a different sporting event.
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Curveball, the Year I Lost My Grip
by Jordan Sonnenblick
After an injury ends Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography, which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a photographer, and a deeper relationship with the grandfather who gives Pete all of his camera gear.
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Go Big or Go Home
by Will Hobbs
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.
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The Batboy
by Mike Lupica
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
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Pop
by Gordon Korman
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
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True Legend
by Mike Lupica
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
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Second Impact
by David Klass
When Jerry Downing, the star high school quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident the year before, Carla Jensen, ace reporter for the school newspaper, invites him to join her in writing a blog, mainly about sports.
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Stealing Parker
by Miranda Kenneally
Parker Shelton's perfect life takes a turn when her mother's scandal rocks their small town, and Parker quits the softball team, loses twenty pounds, and starts a dangerous flirtation with the school's new baseball coach.
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The Sports Pages
by Jon Scieszka
A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.
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The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander
A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health.
*This book can be found in the Teen Middle Fiction (TM) section of the library.
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Stupid Fast
by Geoff Herbach
Growing suddenly very tall in his sophomore year of high school, former small kid Felton Reinstein discovers that he has become a very fast runner but finds his athletic ambitions compromised by his mother's depression, his annoying younger brother, a first romance and a shocking secret from his past.
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Slam!
by Walter Dean Myers
Despite his talents on the basketball court, sixteen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris performs poorly in the classroom, and when his teachers confront him, an explosively angry Slam fears for his future for the first time. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
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Poor Little Dead Girls
by Lizzie Friend
Starting her junior year at an exclusive East Coast girls' boarding school on a lacrosse scholarship, small-town Sadie uncovers a murder mystery after being inducted into a powerful secret society.
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