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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Drew Howard is frustrated and planning to quit the team, because now that he is playing organized football he can not seem to throw a good pass--but a new boy, Tyler Wade, forces him to realize that quitting is not the answer to his problems.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
When high school junior Liv Rodriquez is kicked off her private school's softball team and loses her scholarship she must join her new school's football team to prove she can be a team player, all while falling for the star quarterback.
23) Lacrosse laser
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Now that he has new glasses, fourteen-year-old Jaylin is anxious to put his speed and accurate shot to use on offense, but his lacrosse team has always relied on his stellar defense, and without it too many goals are ending up in their net--so the team needs to come up with a strategy to balance both halves of his game.
25) Soccer spirit
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In order to play soccer, three girls have to play for an arch rival team.
26) Little Shaq
Author
Series
Little Shaq volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seven-year-old Shaquille O'Neal, a talented basketball and video game player, learns to share the spotlight with his cousin Barry when the youngsters work together to earn money by watering plants.
27) Play makers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 15
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Picked to represent their planet Nebulon in the Interstellar Space Race, Zack and his friends navigate their specially designed car through an underwater maze, around planetary rings, and through the stars! But when trouble stirs within the team, Zack must take charge. Can he lead them to victory?"--
30) I am strong
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
I Am Strong follows a young boy on a fun-filled day as he learns what it means to be strong. Despite his small size, he surprises his teammates and himself when he demonstrates mental, emotional, and physical strength to become the Field Day champion! This third title in the Positive Power series will get kids excited about their own strengths-whether it's learning to read or running really fast. About the Positive Power Series: Short on words and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When eighth grade basketball player Shaena suffers a concussion in a game, she finds herself sidelined two weeks before the big game--and as she watches her team practice with the new freshman player, Shaena, who is used to being the star, starts to worry that by the time she recovers she will no longer be needed.
32) Second shot
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Leggie LaGrande, star runner on the Bricklin Middle School track team, suffers a hamstring injury at the very start of the season, he figures his shot at the Junior Olympics is over--but his coach insists that even if he cannot run he can still compete in some other track and field event, so he finds himself working out at the shot put, competing with a new student whom he dislikes.
Author
Series
Sylvie Scruggs volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Sylvie Scruggs is old enough to join her town's new junior ice-hockey team, and she is a really good skater, even if she does have a tendency to close her eyes when she shoots, but fifth-grader Jamie Redmond does not like younger kids on the team, and when someone starts pulling pranks on Sylvie she is convinced that Jamie is responsible--and she enlists the help of her friends to prove it and get even.
35) Wind up
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 8
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: As Derek and his team tackle playoffs, everyone deals with the pressure in different ways. And practice gets intense! One of Derek's teammates, Avery, starts being especially hard on herself. She isn't even enjoying the game anymore. Can Derek and the rest of the team pull her out of her funk? Inspired by Derek Jeter's childhood, this is the eighth book in Jeter Publishing's New York Times bestselling middle grade baseball series...
36) Soccer step-up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When budget cuts lead to the elimination of Delano Middle School's girl soccer team, Melina Stern and the other seventh and eighth graders are invited to try out for the high school varsity team--but the older players clearly do not want the middle schoolers around, and the girls are having trouble playing as a team.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alex Landry is determined to recruit the new boy at Wisconsin's Kingsford Middle School, Miles Vaughn, to the snowboard team, because his skill is awesome, but Miles is taking care of his younger siblings while his mother works two jobs, and finding the time to attend practice is difficult--so Alex sets out to show him being a part of a team means you always have someone to share the load.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Antonia volunteers to play a different role when a new and inexperienced player joins her esports team, but when her new position proves to be more difficult than she expected, she realizes she must learn new strategies or risk letting her team down.
39) Teamwork trouble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is a fun Level Two I Can Read book based on Dan Gutman's My Weird School series, which has sold more than 12 million books! Join the gang from Ella Mentry School in this hilarious, hijinks-filled sports story as they show young readers why they attend the weirdest-and most fun!-school around. With help from Coach Deen, Ryan wants to form a sports team with A.J. and Andrea, but it's for one of the weirdest sports there is: curling! Will the sweepers...
40) Pool panic
Author
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
Jenny loves swimming, and her best friend has finally convinced her to join the school swim team--but when she is confronted by a crowd of spectators in competition she freezes up.
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