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Strong Like You
T. L. Simpson - North Star Editions
Format: Paperback
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I haven't cried one time since you disappeared. Not even at football practice when Paton Roper told the whole team you were probably dead. He said, "You know how sometimes a dog gets sick or bites somebody and you have to put it down?"
Somebody said, "Yep."
"That's... |
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Rez Ball
Byron Graves - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover
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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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Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports
Dahlia Adler - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling YA anthology from editors Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli about the trials and triumphs of girls in sports.Ambition. Drive. Determination. Talent. Courage. Teamwork.. Every athlete knows what it takes to win. But for players who are teen girls, the stakes are so much higher.... |
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You Don't Have a Shot
Racquel Marie - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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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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Blue Lock 1
Muneyuki Kaneshiro - Kodansha Comics
Format: Paperback
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A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. Its a no-balls-barred battle to become Japans next top striker, in this Squid Game-meets-World Cup manga, now available in print! Anime... |
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The Knockout
Sajni Patel
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir)
Colin Kaepernick
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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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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy
Faith Erin Hicks - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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Why We Fly
Kimberly Jones - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling authors of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest.With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best friends Eleanor and Chanel have a lot on their minds. Eleanor is still in physical... |
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Sidelined
Kara Bietz - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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"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
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. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Violence and Sports: Dangerous Games (Hot Topics)
Tyler Stevenson
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Violence is considered an acceptable and sometimes desirable part of many organized sports. Hard hits are praised in football and hockey, and boxers are idolized for being able to knock out their opponents. What kinds of implications can the normalization of violence have off of t |
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That's My Team!: The History, Science, and Fun behind Sports Teams' Names
Paul Volponi - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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How did author Edgar Allen Poe influence the naming of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens? What major historical events inspired the naming of the Philadelphia 76ers, San Francisco 49ers, and Oklahoma Sooners? And what caused the NBA's Washington Bullets to change their name to the Wizards?... |
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