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Author
Series
Game changers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mike Lupica delivers a New York Times bestselling middle grade series!
Ben McBain is every football team's dream player. He's a jack-of-all-trades guy that can handle almost any position. When the game is on the line, Ben's number is the one being called for the final play. But Ben wants to be the starting quarterback and the one thing standing in his way is the coach's son.Shawn O'Brien looks the part. He has been groomed by his father, a former...
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team
4) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him
5) Soccerland
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Two years after her mother's death of cancer, fourteen-year-old Flora leaves the family's Maine farm for Colorado's International Sports Academy, where fierce competition could end their dream of Flora playing for U.S. Soccer
Author
Series
Squish volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Squish, comic book fan and grade school amoeba, is made captain of his soccer team and following the example of his favorite superhero, must figure out how to turn a losing streak around without losing his friends
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team
10) Soccer shootout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a new boy joins the Titans soccer team, Berk, who has always played goalkeeper, is challenged for that position and he must decide whether to hold a grudge or act for the good of the team
11) Beyond lucky
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ari Fish is sure that the rare trading card he found has changed his luck and that of his soccer team, but after the card is stolen he comes to know that we make our own luck, and that heroes can be fallible
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Rotten Ralph, the cat, fails to win a spot on a baseball team with his friend Sarah, he becomes the "cat boy" instead, still dreaming of proving himself the superstar he imagines himself to be
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2012: McKenna volume 2
Girl of the year. 2012 McKenna volume 2
American girl today. McKenna volume 2
Girl of the year. 2012 McKenna volume 2
American girl today. McKenna volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests
14) Play makers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jo is disappointed when she is not placed on the Red Angels in the summer softball league--but when she is offered the chance to switch teams, Jo has to decide if she will leave her friends and play for the "winning" team--or win with the Sonics
Author
Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ellie loves the Journey of the Mind club and struggles to keep from failing miserably on her soccer team, but when both groups have tournaments the same day, she musters her team spirit and tries to succeed at both
17) On the line
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking his arm during the first day of try-outs last season, Robby is determined to make the football team this year, but to do so he must face his own fears and the bully who tackled him the year before
18) Jump shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the Tiki and Ronde make the junior high school basketball team, they see that they each have their own skills and the most important skill is teamwork
19) Winning team
Author
Series
Go-for-gold gymnasts volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Britt's family moves to Houston so she can train at an elite gym she looks forward to being part of a team, but after alienating the other girls and failing to impress her coaches, Britt begins to figure out what teamwork really means
20) Caught stealing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father's valuable signed baseball disappears during the team's sleepover, Ian Shin, catcher for the Scottsville Knights, suspects the new pitcher, Hunter Yates, but he cannot be sure, and his trust in his teammates is shattered--so he must uncover the truth to bring the team back together
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