Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and...
Sports fiction
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Author:Gutman, Dan.Summary: - Author:Trembath, DonSummary:
Rooster Cobb is in trouble, with his school, with his mother, with his girlfriend. He smokes too much and he hates his stepfather. In fact, he might not graduate from high school. But he just doesn't seem to care. That is until the...
- Author:Bates, Sonya SpreenSummary:
Everyone expected Leon Kline, anchor for the 4x100 sprint relay, to secure Gilburn High's spot in the record books. But a freak accident on the final stretch changes everything. Suddenly his future is gone. No more running, no...
- Author:Nelson, ColleenSummary:
Sadia wishes life in high school was as straightforward as a game of basketball. Fifteen-year-old Sadia Ahmadi is passionate about one thing: basketball. Her best friend Mariam, on the other hand, wants to get noticed by the popular...
- Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
Finalist, ReLit Award. Amazon.ca's 50 Essential Canadian Books selection.
First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, Salvage King, Ya! is a novel firmly rooted in Canada’s favourite national pastime—hockey. Critics have...
- Author:Gutman, DanSummary:
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
- Author:Hellard, TylerSummary:
Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot--a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout--who also happens to be Adam's estranged...
- Author:Taekema, SylviaSummary:
When it comes to cross-country running, Jake does everything right. He eats all the right foods, trains like crazy and reads articles about running in his spare time. There's nothing easy about running, but the hardest part for Jake is...
- Author:Quindlen, KellySummary:
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, who is as beautiful as she is mean. When...
- Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
More than just another baseball story, this soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based is about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.
- Author:Coleman, K. R.Summary:
With the state tournament finals just around the corner, the crosstown rivalry between the Edison High Eddies and the Winfield Wildcats heats up. Toby and Walter, second-string Edison sophomores, are just along for the ride. But when a...
- Author:Coleman, K. R.Summary:
As their senior year comes to a close, Iggy and Calvin realize that they might not play football together after they graduate. So when a scout from the University of Coastal California expresses interest in signing both of them, the...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Dorf has always lived by his personal motto: If it’s worth doing, do it. If it’s not worth doing, do it anyway. But now he’s in a new city, and the terrain has changed. He’s no longer free to skateboard where he wishes, school is hard,...
- Author:Jaimet, KateSummary:
Assistant coach of the girl’s basketball team. Sounds like an easy gig for sixteen-year-old Salvador “Slam” Amaro. Show up, run a few drills and pad his resume so he can win a spot on the Ontario Under 17 men’s team. But Slam hasn’t...
- Author:Jenkins, Dan.Summary:
Since the days when golfing was done with a shepherd's crook, only seven men have one a major after the age of 44. BJ figures his chances are slim and none. Fresh from divorce number three and competing against a prodigy youngster, he...
- Author:Poole, Daaimah S.Summary:
Nikki's life was a wreck--three years wasted with a deadbeat boyfriend, and then a huge fight with her best friend Tia. Now, with a promotion at work and a loving new man--who respects her--life is finally going as planned. Until one...
- Author:Grisham, JohnSummary:
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...
- Author:Sandor, StevenSummary:
A car accident injures her parents and paralyzes Janine from the waist down. Her best friend and teammate urges Janine to look into sledge hockey. At first dismissing the sport as being just for the disabled, Janine agrees to play if...
- Author:Christmas, JohnnieSummary:
Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!" JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal-winning New KidA splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics...
- Author:Lupica, MikeSummary:
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer...
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