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Aretha, David
Rounding Third Heading Home!
To complete their turnaround from perennial losers to baseball champions, a ragtag group of ten-year-olds needs help from everyone on the team, even the worst player, who can run the bases faster than anyone, but who cannot hit the ball.
112 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Barber, Tiki
Red Zone
Identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber's excitement over the approaching state championship football game turns to worry when there is a chicken pox outbreak at Hidden Valley Junior High.
159 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Barwin, Steven
Fadeaway
Renna Rashad is not only captain, she's also de facto coach of her basketball team. But when a rival from an opposing team takes a vacant spot on the team, Renna faces some tough choices she wasn't prepared for.
130 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Berk, Josh
Strike Three You're Dead
Lenny Norbeck and his friends The Mikes set out to investigate the suspicious death of a young pitcher at a Phillies game.
250 p. 2013
Children's Fiction Book
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Casanova, Mary
McKenna Ready to Fly!
When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.
124 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Christopher, Matt
Baseball Flyhawk
Chico, a native of Puerto Rico and an excellent swimmer, joins the Royals baseball team but has trouble making friends with String, the most popular member of the team.
109 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Coy, John
Love of the Game
Sixth-grader Jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home but some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.
182 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Day, Karen L.
No Cream Puffs
In 1980, when 12-year-old Madison, who loves to play baseball, decides to play in her town's baseball league, she never envisions the uproar it causes when she becomes the first girl to join.
209 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Goldberg, Whoopi
Terrible Terrel
Nine-year-old Terrel Liu tries to sabotage her father's new relationship with the aunt of her ballet class nemesis.
151 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Gourlay, Candy
Tall Story
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
295 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Green, Tim
Best of the Best
Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
262, 4 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Green, Tim
Force Out
When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win.
282 p. 2013
Children's Fiction Book
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Guest, Jacqueline
A Goal in Sight
Aiden is the roughest player on his Calgary hockey team, as likely to be in the penalty box as on the ice. When he hits another player after a game,he's sentenced to one hundred hours of community service and forced to help Eric, a blind player with the Calgary Seeing Eye Dogs.
141 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Gunderson, Jessica
Full Court Pressure
When star defensive player Zack Fuller's basketball team faces his former team in the state championship game, he not only must play against his best friend, his current captain refuses to pass the ball to Zack. This book is in graphic novel format.
49 p. 2010
Children's Graphic Novel
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Hicks, Betty
Goof-off Goalie
Ten-year-old Goose is best at goofing off, but when he decides to become the goalie for their soccer team, his friend Henry sets up a practice schedule and enlists their other friends to help Goose improve his skills.
54 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Hobbs, Will
Go Big or Go Home
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota bedroom.
185 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Loughead, Deb
Just Run
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Howson is a take-charge kind of girl, maybe even something of a control freak. She means wellshe just wants everything to run smoothly, especially on her relay team. But when someone tries to sabotage the boys' relay team Daisy suspects her own team may be involved.
103 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Lupica, Mike
The Batboy
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
247 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Lupica, Mike
Game Changers
When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
207 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Lupica, Mike
Play Makers
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the courts hard to practice. Ben's rivalry with Chase seems to take the fun out of playing ball with his best friends. Will Ben be able to pull it together for his team and for himself?
201 p. 2013
Children's Fiction Book
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