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Beartown volume 2
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...
3) Sooley
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Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
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Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And, if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one of those victories. After all, her dad-a former champion tennis player himself-has trained her for this...
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Stink Moody volume 6
Description
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
Author
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Description
Presents simple facts about hockey, including terms, positions, and plays.
"With a fun mix of Sports Illustrated action photography, simple text, a full glossary of terms, and cool graphics, My First Book of Hockey introduces readers to the basics. Kids (and maybe a few adults, too!) will learn how power plays work, how the three-period game flows, what a hat trick is, what's up with the referee's crease, and more."--Amazon.com.
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Worried sick about his baby brother's operation, twelve-year-old Dominic does not really feel much like playing soccer, so he just messes around on the field during practice--but when his grandfather teaches him some moves he starts to take an interest, and sets out to win the trust of his coach and teammates.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm. + 1 CD (25 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Formats
Description
Provides accounts of twenty-five of the greatest moments in sports, each with photographs and statistics, and includes an audio CD that features some of the actual broadcasts of the games.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 18 cm.
Description
Everything has its weird side-- even sports! Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of spots trivia with this new addition to the very popular Weird but True series! With the Olympics on the way, discover tons more zany fun, focused totally on the subject of sports!
12) Stephen Florida
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Description
"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why-as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of a...
14) Camp So-and-So
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Description
"Twenty five girls are invited to attend the mysterious Camp So-and-So over the summer where they work with their cabin mates to compete in the All-Camp Sports 7 Follies"--
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Series
Race the wild volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
The team races against the best of the best in the Australian outback, but when an old opponent appears, Sage fears it could ruin their chances.
18) Striker assist
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Description
Talented striker Jax Cooper has been Most Valuable Player for the Screaming Hawks for four years in a row, but when he joins a traveling league he finds out that he still has a lot to learn about teamwork.
19) Mixed doubles
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Series
Benchwarmers volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
20) The best team money can buy: the Los Angeles Dodgers' wild struggle to build a baseball powerhouse
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--
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