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  • Playing for pizza
    Author:
    John Grisham
    Summary:

    Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian...
  • Paralyzed
    Author:
    Rud, Jeff
    Summary:

    Reggie Scott has always prided himself on being a hard-hitting middle linebacker. But after he is involved in a play on which an opposing player is seriously injured, things change. Football doesn’t seem to matter so much when another...
  • OCDaniel
    Author:
    King, Wesley
    Summary:

    From the author of Incredible Space Raiders from Space! comes a coming-of-age story about a boy whose life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder-until he gets a mysterious note that changes everything. Daniel is the...
  • Living with the hawk
    Author:
    Currie, Robert
    Summary:

    Living with the Hawk explores the traumatic events in the life of Blair Russell, a high school football player who struggles to do what’s right in tough circumstances. Key characters are his brother, Blake, the team’s quarterback;...
  • Like other girls
    Author:
    Lundin, Britta
    Summary:

    A lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron, and she turns out to be a natural. But joining the team sets off a chain of events in her small Oregon town that she never could have predicted.
  • Leverage
    Author:
    Cohen, Joshua
    Summary:

    In a school where the football team rules, footballer Kurt and gymnast Danny form an unlikely friendship. When one of the gym team is viciously assaulted by the quarterback and his cronies, Kurt defends him, challenging the stereotypes...
  • Les orphelins de l'amour
    Author:
    Meacham, Leila
    Summary:

    Quel sentiment est le plus fort : l’amitié ou l’amour? Texas, 1979. Catherine Ann est encore une petite fille lorsqu’elle perd ses parents dans un accident de voiture en Californie. Chez sa grand-mère Emma, dans une petite ville du...
  • Juice
    Author:
    Walters, Eric
    Summary:

    When a division one coach comes to their smaller school to bring the football program up to contender status, Moose and the rest of the players on the team are pumped. Coach Barnes has new ideas and a vision for the future, nothing is...
  • Gym candy
    Author:
    Deuker, Carl
    Summary:

    Running back Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport....
  • Gang tackle
    Author:
    Howling, Eric
    Summary:

    In this high-interest sports novel, Jamal and his teammates take a stand against their new coach when his bullying and discrimination go too far.
  • Final season
    Author:
    Green, Tim
    Summary:

    After Benjamin Reed's dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis--connected to all his years in football--Ben's mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit. Ben isn't playing just for himself. This might be...
  • Cobra strike
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother's cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team's new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source...
  • Away Running
    Author:
    Wright, David
    Summary:

    In this novel for teens, Matt and Free meet in Paris, where they both play American football on a team in a poverty-stricken suburb where racial tension affects the team.
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