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Children's Recommendations - Sports

Sports - Fast and Fun

Book cover for Coach Hyatt is a riot! by Dan Gutman
ISBN: 9780329699499
Title: Coach Hyatt is a riot! by Dan Gutman - A new football coach arrives at school and, with help from an unexpected new team member, the Moose win a game
Author: Gutman, Dan.
Power forward
ISBN: 9781534411982
Title: Power forward by Hena Khan - Fourth-grader Zayd yearns to play basketball on the Gold Team, but when he skips orchestra rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything basketball-related, and tryouts are coming soon
Author: Khan, Hena, author.
The gold medal mess
ISBN: 9780553513202
Title: The gold medal mess by David A. Kelly - Five friends are ready for their school's Olympics field day. But not everyone wants to play fair; someone is trying to ruin the events!
Author: Kelly, David A. (David Andrew), 1964- author.
The hockey rink hunt
ISBN: 9780425289488
Title: The hockey rink hunt by Mike Lupica - With only days before the last game of the Stanley Cup finals in Boston, eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe are determined to find hockey star Mike Gordon's missing lucky necklace
Author: Lupica, Mike, author.
Storm surfer
ISBN: 9781434205216
Title: Storm surfer by Jake Maddox - Jill never thought her week at surf camp would be interrupted by a hurricane, but one is heading for the North Carolina coast!
Author: Maddox, Jake.
Caught stealing
ISBN: 9781496504975
Title: Caught stealing by Jake Maddox - When his father's valuable signed baseball disappears during the team's sleepover, Ian Shin, catcher for the Scottsville Knights, must uncover the truth to bring the team back together
Author: Maddox, Jake, author.
Jim Nasium is a football fumbler
ISBN: 9781496505224
Title: Jim Nasium is a football fumbler by Marty McKnight - Jim Nasium has tried lots of sports, but the trouble is that he has always been a klutz—but this year he is determined to make a new start on the football field
Author: McKnight, Marty, author.
Cam Jansen
ISBN: 9780142412251
Title: Cam Jansen : the Sports Day mysteries : a super special by David A. Adler - Supersleuth Cam Jansen solves three mysteries during her class's Sports and Good Nutrition Day
Author: Adler, David A.
Arthur and the goalie ghost
ISBN: 0316120421
Title: Arthur and the goalie ghost by Stephen Krensky - Arthur and his hockey teammates, as well as the ghost of the greatest goalie of all time, help out when Buster worries he'll never be as good a goalie as his hero
Author: Krensky, Stephen.
Henry Heckelbeck never cheats
ISBN: 9781534461079
Title: Henry Heckelbeck never cheats by Wanda Coven - When new student Max challenges Henry for the position of goalie on the soccer team, he must decide whether using the Book of Spells would make him a cheater
Author: Coven, Wanda, author.
Bad Kitty joins the team
ISBN: 9781250208071
Title: Bad Kitty joins the team by Nick Bruel - Kitty is terribly out of shape and when Kitty's owner catches her wheezing, she is told that it is time to exercise, but it will take a bit of trickery to get Kitty into the competitive spirit
Author: Bruel, Nick, author, illustrator.
Track attack
ISBN: 9781596434882
Title: Track attack by Betty Hicks - Jazz is a born runner who loves being on the school's track team. Her biggest fan is her dad—and that becomes a problem. How can Jazz tell him to stay away from the track without hurting his feelings?
Author: Hicks, Betty.
Swimming with sharks
ISBN: 9781596432451
Title: Swimming with sharks by Betty Hicks - Rita tries to improve her times and flip turns as she struggles to decide whether to remain the best swimmer on the Dolphins team or the worst on the Sharks team, where she could be with her friends
Author: Hicks, Betty.

Sports - Fiction

The girl who threw butterflies
ISBN: 9780375956829
Title: The girl who threw butterflies by Mick Cochrane - Eighth-grader Molly earns a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, but also helps in other aspects of her life
Author: Cochrane, Mick.
Babe and me
ISBN: 0380977397
Title: Babe and me : a baseball card adventure by Dan Gutman - With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out what really happened during Babe Ruth's 1932 World Series homerun
Author: Gutman, Dan.
The million dollar putt
ISBN: 0786836415
Title: The million dollar putt by Dan Gutman - Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament
Author: Gutman, Dan.
The contract
ISBN: 9781481423120
Title: The contract by Derek Jeter - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field
Author: Jeter, Derek, 1974- author.
No more dead dogs
ISBN: 0786805315
Title: No more dead dogs by Gordon Korman - Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production
Author: Korman, Gordon.
The only game
ISBN: 9781481409957
Title: The only game by Mike Lupica - Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball
Author: Lupica, Mike.
Saving the team
ISBN: 9781442485709
Title: Saving the team by Alex Morgan - Seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team so bad that she is compelled to turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of
Author: Morgan, Alex (Alexandra Patricia), 1989-
Keeping score
ISBN: 9780618927999
Title: Keeping score by Linda Sue Park - In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them
Author: Park, Linda Sue.
The kid who only hit homers
ISBN: 0316139874
Title: The kid who only hit homers by Matt Christopher - A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth befriends him
Author: Christopher, Matt.
Three strike summer
ISBN: 9781534499140
Title: Three strike summer by Skyler Schrempp - Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on
Author: Schrempp, Skyler, author.
Key player
ISBN: 9781338776256
Title: Key player by Kelly Yang - The Women's World Cup is coming to Southern California, and everyone is soccer-crazy—especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together
Author: Yang, Kelly, author.
Diary of a wimpy kid
ISBN: 9781419749155
Title: Diary of a wimpy kid : big shot by Jeff Kinney - When everything is on the line and the ball is in Greg's hands, will he rise to the occasion? Or will he blow his big shot?
Author: Kinney, Jeff, author, illustrator.
Becoming Muhammad Ali
ISBN: 9780316498166
Title: Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander - A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time
Author: Patterson, James, 1947- author.
The tree of Ecrof
ISBN: 9781949520071
Title: The tree of Ecrof by Ivy Claire - Set in an alternative classical world dominated by sports and a magical power called grana, this is the story of two children: the orphaned outcast Rovi and the crown princess Pretia, who uncover and battle terrible evil
Author: Pochoda, Ivy, author.