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  • The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
    Author:
    Kinsella, W. P.
    Summary:

    Gideon Clarke, like his father before him, tries to prove that the Chicago Cubs played a game of over two thousand innings against the amateur league Iowa Baseball Confederacy in the summer of 1908 even though no one else seems to...
  • The Last Season
    Author:
    MacGregor, Roy
    Summary:

    Now that his hockey career is ending, what will become of his life? Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty. He got out and enjoyed fame as a hockey "...
  • The late hit
    Author:
    Coleman, K. R.
    Summary:

    With talk of their high school shutting down for good, Busby and his best friend Anton know that it might be up to their football team to save the school. With such high stakes, is it worth it to ignore injuries and push through' Will a...
  • The men in white
    Author:
    Irani, Anosh
    Summary:

    FINALIST, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR DRAMA In the latest play from Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Anosh Irani, we meet eighteen-year-old Hasan Siddiqui, who lives in a bustling Muslim quarter of Bombay. He escapes...
  • The natural
    Author:
    Kreie, Chris
    Summary:

    Kamal is used to being the top dog on his soccer team, until Justin joins. Justin is what you'd call a "natural". He is talented, athletic, and has all the making of a star. Although he doesn't play like one yet, Justin is improving...
  • The recruit
    Author:
    Coleman, K. R.
    Summary:

    Tessa knows a soccer scholarship is her best chance at going to college. She's the best player on her small-town high school team-but that doesn't mean much in the big world of college soccer. Luckily, her best friend's...
  • The road Les travelled
    Author:
    Fisher, Chris
    Summary:

    A powerful and touching family sports story, as Les Carson, a young man who grew up in southern Saskatchewan and works in Regina, takes a road trip to Toronto to see the Hockey Hall of Fame with two hockey-mad old-timers, his dying...
  • The sky between you and me
    Author:
    Alene, Catherine
    Summary:

    An emotional and heart wrenching novel about grief and striving for perfection. Lighter. Leaner. Faster. Raesha will to do whatever it takes to win Nationals. For her, competing isn't just about the speed of her horse or the thrill...
  • The starting eleven (Book #3)
    Author:
    Skuy, David
    Summary:

    Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
  • The superstar
    Author:
    Kreie, Chris
    Summary:

    Daniela is looking forward to soccer season. Not only are the Bay Park Rams a great team, she gets to play alongside her best friend, Rinad. And then there's Kennedy-the newest member of the team-who might just be the best soccer...
  • The swimmers
    Author:
    Otsuka, Julie
    Summary:

    From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool...
  • The turnaround
    Author:
    Martin, R. T.
    Summary:

    Justin has always been a big fan of Mason Falls High School's baseball team, the Lions-even though they are the worst in their division. But this season, the Lions are playing surprisingly well under the new coach. Almost too well...
  • The way champs play
    Author:
    Osaka, Naomi
    Summary:

    In a rhythmic celebration of sport and play, four-time Grand Slam champion and tennis superstar Naomi Osaka shares key steps to becoming a true champ, including being kind, working as a team, doing your best, and most importantly,...
  • The wrong Mr. Darcy
    Author:
    Lozada, Evelyn
    Summary:

    "Juggling multiple character accents and tones with ease, [narrator Joniece] Abbott-Pratt shines as Hara, her lilting and curious tone perfectly complementing the novel's relatable go-getter protagonist." —Booklist. In Evelyn Lozada and...
  • Thin Ice Capital Crime
    Author:
    Wilkshire, Nick
    Summary:

    Hockey is a dangerous game, but it’s what happens off the ice that can get you killed … Curtis Ritchie is the only news in town when Ottawa takes the young hockey sensation first overall in the annual spring draft. But on the eve of...
  • Thunderbird spirit
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    Hockey stars Mike “Crazy” Keats and his Cree Indian friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning this year’s hockey league championship the least of their concerns. Mike’s new to the Seattle Thunderbirds, and...
  • Tiger threat
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    Ray Hockaday plays center for the Medicine Hat Tigers. He’s spent his hockey career hiding something from the world. When his new Russian roommate shows up, Ray is assigned to help Vlad get used to life in Canada. What Ray doesn’t know...
  • Tilt
    Author:
    Cumyn, Alan
    Summary:

    Nominated for the Ottawa Book Award. Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he’s blindsided by the unexpected...
  • Titan clash
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    Jack’s dad is tough on him, but he has learned to live with it. For the most part, Jack has it pretty good. He’s a star player on his high school basketball team with everything going for him; scoring records, popularity and an easy...
  • Topspin
    Author:
    Bates, Sonya Spreen
    Summary:

    Kat is thrilled to be competing in a junior tennis championship at Melbourne Park for the first time. But things are off to a horrible start. Her doubles partner, Miri, is sneaking around at night and asking Kat to cover for her. She's...

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