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Byron Graves - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover

This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school...
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You Don't Have a Shot

Racquel Marie - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Drives Me Crazy.. Valentina "Vale" Castillo-Green's life revolves around soccer. Her friends, her future, and her father's intense expectations are all wrapped up in the beautiful...
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Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir)

Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game is an inspiring high school graphic novel memoir for readers 12 and up from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick.High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pi
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The Knockout

Sajni Patel
Format: Hardcover

"A rising star in Muay Thai figures out what (and who) is worth fighting for in this #ownvoices YA debut full of heart. If seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar is going to alienate herself from the entire Indian community, she might as well do it gloriously. She's landed the chance...
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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

Faith Erin Hicks - First Second
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with a young adult graphic novel romance about a hotheaded hockey player who asks for temper management lessons from the cool, calm boy in drama club.. It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate...
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Wrong Side of the Court

H.N. Khan
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Fawad has big dreams aboutbeing the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA.A first-generation Pakistani coming-of-age story for fans of David Yoon and Ben Philippe.Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground-beef...
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Sidelined

Kara Bietz - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Julian Jackson has a short to-do list for his senior year at Crenshaw County High School in Meridien, Texas: football, football, and more football. He knows he's only got one chance to earn a college scholarship and make it out of his small town, and keeping his head down, his grades...
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Peak

Roland Smith - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. - Peak Marcello After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile...
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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler - ‎Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

"Home Field Advantage has it all. A swoony romance, characters you will be cheering for from start to finish, and a plot that sucks you in from the very first page. An instant favorite, perfectly capturing the power in being true to yourself and fighting for what is right." - Rachael...
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Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia,...
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The Passing Playbook

Isaac Fitzsimons - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother, and a David Beckham in training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of isolation and bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal private school in Ohio....
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Fence Vol. 1

C S PACAT - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fencing, and earn his place alongside fencing legends like the dad he never knew, but things get more complicated when he's up against his golden-boy half-brother, as well as sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama.Nicholas,...
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Golden Arm

Carl Deuker - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty - one strike at a time. By "a premier author of provocative YA sports novels" (The Bulletin) . Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always...
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Gravity

Sarah Deming - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover

A. S. King meets Chris Crutcher in boxing journalist Sarah Deming's YA novel about a young female boxer who learns to fight for what she wants. When Gravity Delgado walks into Cops 'n Kids, a no-frills Brooklyn boxing gym, and starts working with the legendary Coach Thomas, she joins a true...
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Running with Lions

Julian Winters - Duet, an imprint of Interlude Press
Format: Paperback

Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie, Sebastian Hughes, should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing and he's got a coach who doesn't ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged childhood best friend Emir Shah shows up to summer training...
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Check, Please!: # Hockey

NGOZI UKAZU - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur ptissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's...
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She Drives Me Crazy

Kelly Quindlen
Format: Hardcover

After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, who is as beautiful as she is mean. When the damage sends Irene's car to the shop for weeks'...
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Game Changer

Neal Shusterman - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ashs life doesnt look quite the way he remembers it.
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Bruised

Tanya Boteju - Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Ebook

Whip It meets We Are Okay in this vibrant coming-of-age story, about a teen girl navigates first love, identity, and grief when she immerses herself in the colorful, brutal, beautiful world of roller derbyfrom the acclaimed author of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens . To Daya Wijesinghe,...
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My Eyes Are Up Here

Laura Zimmermann - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Insightful, frank, and funny, My Eyes Are Up Here is a razor-sharp debut about a teenage girl struggling to rediscover her sense of self in the year after her body decided to change all the rules.A "monomial" is a simple algebraic expression consisting of a single term. 30H, for example....
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Top Prospect

Paul Volponi - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Print book

Travis, a pre-teen quarterback with big potential, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the University of Florida football coach offers him a scholarship before he's even in high school. Can he handle his newfound celebrity status?
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Here to Stay

Sara Farizan - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning...
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Willie O'Ree: The story of the first black player in the NHL

Nicole Mortillaro - Lorimer
Format: Paperback

Willie O'Ree quietly made NHL history at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958, when he became the first black player to take to the ice. In the dressing room before the game, his Boston Bruins teammates told him not to worry. If any one of the Montreal players said anything to him,...
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As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success

Kendall Coyne - Zonderkidz
Format: Hardcover


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Dragon Hoops

Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Hardcover

In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches.Gene understands stories -- comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero...
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance

Simone Biles - Zondervan
Format: Print book

Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, passion, and perseverance have made her one of the top gymnasts in the world, as well as a four-time winner of Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro....
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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that...
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One Life: Young Readers Edition

Megan Rapinoe - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

You know Megan Rapinoe as an international soccer superstar! She's also a fierce activist, boldly speaking out about issues of equality and justice - from LGBTQ rights to the equal pay movement to Black Lives Matter. In this adaptation for middle school readers of her memoir One Life,...
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Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

PHILLIP HOOSE - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece...
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Baseball's Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues

Andrea Williams

Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues--on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans, and often run by Black owners. Here is the riveting true story of the woman at t
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