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• Booked

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

• Curveball

  the Year I Lost My Grip

  Sonnenblick, Jordan

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  After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dinged

  Greenwald, Tom, 1962-

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  Caleb Springer is the up-and-coming star freshman quarterback on the high school football team, which isn't a surprise considering his dad, Sammy Springer, was an NFL superstar and is now the town celebrity. But just as Caleb's glory days begin, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hooper

  Herbach, Geoff

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  For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Losers Take All

  Klass, David

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  At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels starts a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school.

• Out of Our League

  16 Stories of Girls in Sports

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  A compelling YA anthology from editors Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli about the trials and triumphs of girls in sports.

• Playing for Keeps

  Dugan, Jennifer

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  Another heartfelt YA sapphic romance—starring a baseball pitcher and a student umpire who are definitely not supposed to fall for one another.

• The Running Dream

  Van Draanen, Wendelin

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  When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

• Top Prospect

  Volponi, Paul

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  Travis, a pre-teen quarterback with big potential, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the coach of Gainesville University football program offers him a scholarship before Travis even gets to high school.

• Wrong Side of the Court

  Khan, H. N.

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  Fifteen-year-old Fawad has big dreams about being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA.

• Zeroboxer

  Lee, Fonda

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  As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport but interplanetary relations.