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Sports - Fast and Fun

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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
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
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!
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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Sports - Fiction

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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Junior High - Sports

The walk on by John Feinstein - The football team's corrupt coach, who is the father of the current starter, will stop at nothing to keep Alex off the field
Tall story by Candy Gourlay - Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called gigantism, leaves the Philippines to live with his mother's family in London
Baseball genius by Tim Green, Derek Jeter - An everyday kid with a talent for predicting baseball pitches is caught stealing baseballs from his favorite New York Yankees player
Heat by Mike Lupica - Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof
Travel team by Mike Lupica - After he is cut from his travel basketball team, -twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory
Ghost by Jason Reynolds - Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential
The running dream by Wendelin Van Draanen - When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again