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1) Here to stay
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins. In doing so, she forms...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times,...
Author
Publisher
Nebraska
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men's collegiate game. After Mike Veeck signed Borders in May 1997 to pitch for his St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League, she accomplished what no woman had done...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author and Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers once again connects with teenagers everywhere in Darius & Twig, a novel about friendship and needing to live one's own dream. This touching and raw teen novel from the author of Monster, Kick, We Are America, Bad Boy, and many other celebrated literary works for children and teens is a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
Darius and Twig are an unlikely
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Series
Publisher
Broadman & Holman Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As college senior Chip plays in his last football game, a last-second decision proves the difference between losing the title and winning a trip to the Rose Bowl.
8) Swing
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a potentially career-ending shoulder injury left quarterback Drew Brees without a team and faced with the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over again, coaches around the NFL wondered, would he ever come back? After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving 85% of the city under water, many wondered, would the city ever come back? And with their stadium transformed into a makeshift refugee camp, forcing the Saints...
10) Steroids
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Swim. Eat. Shower. School. Snack. Swim. Swim. Swim. Dinner. Homework. Bed. Repeat.
All of Maggie's focus and free time is spent swimming. She's not only striving to earn scholarships—she's training to qualify for the Olympics. It helps that her best friend, Levi, is also on the team, and cheers her on. But Levi's already earned an Olympic tryout, so Maggie feels even more pressure to succeed. And it's not until Maggie's away on a college
...13) Long lost
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Myron Bolitar hasn't heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.
14) River thunder
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Despite some reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her companions from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado River for a legal rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
15) Dive Smack
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that destroyed his home: he lit the match.
Sure, it was an accident. But the blaze killed his mom and set his dad on a path to self-destruction. Everything else about that fateful night is full of gaping holes in Theo's mind, for good reason. Maybe it's better that way. As captain of the Ellis Hollow Diving Team, with straight A's and solid friends, he's only one semester away from securing...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Holland Delviss wants to be known for her talent as a hockey player, not a hockey player who happens to be a girl. But when her school team is selected to be featured and televised as part of HockeyFest, her status as the only girl on the boys' team makes her the lead story. Not everyone is thrilled with Holland's new fame, but there's one person who fiercely supports her, and it's the last person she expects (and definitely the last person she should...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Expansive, romantic, and powerful." —Gayle Forman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have Lost My Way
Susannah Ramos has always loved the water. A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable...
Susannah Ramos has always loved the water. A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that.
Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. There's a spirit that endures in Willow Creek, Montana. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten...
20) Whale talk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
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