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1) Bleachers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field...
Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field...
Author
Series
My big fat zombie goldfish volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tom and Predeep discover the truth behind an ancient Egyptian curse when Tom's brother crashes their night at the museum.
4) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Harrison, a foster kid in a cruel home, knows his dream of playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then his luck changes. He is brought into a good home, and his big build and determination quickly make him a football star. But his good luck ends when a cancerous tumor on his knee causes his leg to be amputated. The story of his recovery and return to playing football is inspirational.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the big game, one of Kit's players tells a ghost...
7) Radio
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk.
10) The oddlympics
Author
Series
Odd gods volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's Greeks versus Romans in a middle school sports competition! Oddonis isn't thrilled but when Zeus and Jupiter get involved, the stakes are raised: Winner gets Mount Olympus.
11) The final season
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. His replacement is his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure seems inevitable. Based on the true story of Kent...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? Kurasuno moves on from the match against Aoba Johsai into a face-off against perennial champions SHIRATORIZAWA! The sheer power of super ace USHIJIMA has them on their heels, but Nishinoya's...
14) Baltimore Boys
Series
Publisher
Team Marketing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From 1981 to 1983, the Dunbar High School boys' basketball team in Baltimore was arguably the best high school basketball team that ever played. Over two seasons, they went 59-0, and eleven players on their rosters went off to Division I programs. Four would become future NBA players: David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Tyrone 'Muggsy' Bogues and Reggie Lewis, three of them making history by being selected together in the first round of the 1987 draft....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
Author
Publisher
W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Florida, living room while watching a 2006 ESPN report on the Barrow Whalers, a high school football team consisting mostly of Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo natives playing in the most difficult of conditions and trying to overcome the most unlikely of odds. These players--raised the northernmost town in the United...
Author
Series
Haikyu!! volume 10
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to--and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?
Series
Anne happy volume 8
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Tennomifune Academy's Sports Day continues, and Hibari is in the Sports Bingo ? Special Race along with her friends! But when it's the disaster-prone students of the Happiness Class against the top talents of the athletics program, is there any hope of avoiding a shutout-especially when some unexpected trouble comes rolling their way?"--pg.4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to{u2014}and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?"--Back cover.
Series
Again!! volume 10
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Kinichiro Imamura is trying to get high school right the second time around. So far, he's managed to reunite the old members of his school's ouendan cheer squad, saving the club from the brink of destruction, but his time-traveling troubles are far from over. With the newly-revived ouendan tasked to cheer at their school's next baseball game, they'll have to cheer harder than ever if they want to bring their team to victory. To pull it off, Kinichiro...
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