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Sports:
BASEBALL FICTION
- Joey Pigza Loses Control - Gantos
- Baseball Card Adventures series - Gutman
- Safe at Second - Johnson
- Never So Green - Johnston
- Shakespeare Bats Cleanup - Koertge
- About the B’nai Bagels - Konigsburg
- Gold Dust - Lynch
- Journal of Biddy Owens - Myers
- Fielder’s Choice - Norman
- Six Innings - Preller
- Over the Wall - Ritter
- The Kid Comes Back - Tunis
- The Kid From Tomkinsville - Tunis
- Aurora County All-Stars - Wiles
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BASKETBALL FICTION
- The Squared Circle - Bennett
- Night Hoops - Deuker
- Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery - Feinstein
- Danger Zone - Klass
- Books by Mike - Lupica
- The Hoopster - Sitomer
- Playing Without the Ball - Wallace
- Winning Season series - Wallace
- Stanford Wong Fails Big-time - Yee
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FOOTBALL
FICTION
- Crackerjack halfback / by Matt Christopher
100 p
- Football nightmare / Matt Christopher ; text
by Robert Hirschfeld
Having dropped a pass and made his football team miss
having an undefeated season, 13-year-old Keith fears that he
will continue to make bad mistakes and wonders if he should
continue playing football. 119 p.
- Roughnecks / Thomas Cochran
Travis Cody prepares for the final game of his high
school football career, a rematch with his school's chief
rival. 248 p.
- Gym candy / by Carl Deuker
Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is
the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick
Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his
freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using
steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social
life. 313 p.
- Game plan / Thomas J. Dygard
When the hospitalization of Barton High's head football
coach forces skinny student manager Beano Hatton to step in,
he must deal with a rebellious quarterback and his own lack
of confidence. 220 p.
- Cover-up / John Feinstein
Two teenagers learn that every player on a professional
football team--which is supposed to play in the Super
Bowl--has failed their drug test and the owner has covered
up the results, and now they must find a way to prove it.
298 p
- Three clams and an oyster / Randy Powell
During their humorous search to find a fourth player for
their flag football team, three high school juniors are
forced to examine their long friendship, their individual
flaws, and their inability to try new experiences. 216 p.
- Knights of the hill country / by Tim Tharp
In his senior year, high school star linebacker Hampton
Green finally begins to think for himself and discovers that
he might be interested in more than just football. 233 p
- The roar of the crowd / Rich Wallace [Series:
Winning season]
After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson
City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the
middle school football team, using determination, speed, and
smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.
103 p.
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RECOMMENDED SPORTS
WRITERS
- BENNETT, JAMES
- BLEDSOE, LUCY JANE (girls)
- BUTLER, DORIE
- CHRISTOPHER, MATT
- CRUTCHER, CHRIS
- DEUKER, CARL
- DYGARD, THOMAS
- GUTMAN, DAN
- HIRSCHFELD, ROBERT
- HOLOHAN, MAUREEN (girls)
- JOHNSON, SCOTT
- JOHNSTON, TIM
- KLASS, DAVID
- KOERTGE, RON
- LYNCH, CHRIS
- MANTELL, PAUL
- MYERS, WALTER DEAN
- RALLISON, JANETTE
- RITTER, JOHN H
- TUNIS, JOHN R
- WALLACE, RICH
- WEAVER, WILL
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