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Author
Series
Haikyu!! volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
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? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, 'the King of the Court,' Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's [autobiography] when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak"-Publisher marketing.
45) Varsity blues
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
When the first string quarterback injures himself, the second string player reluctantly steps in and is forced to deal with the expectations of his win-at-all-costs coach, his disapproving girlfriend, a gorgeous cheerleader, and an entire football-crazed community.
Author
Series
Lake Emily novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
50) Football queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Kylie Jean Carter has been waiting for three years to become a Little Dazzler--a junior cheerleader for the high school's Dancing Dazzlers--so she can cheer for her brother's high school football team.
Author
Series
Haikyu!! volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Karasuno has successfully defeated Tohru Oikawa and Aoba Johsai in their practice match, but the team's future doesn't look so bright. The match uncovered serious holes in Karasuno's defense, which would be fatal in a real game! What they need is a defense expert, a libero, to cover their holes for them. It turns out Karasuno does have a libero named Yu Nishinoya, but he was suspended for one week for violent behavior! And he's even shorter than...
Author
Series
Lake Emily novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay.
53) The miracle of St. Anthony: a season with Coach Bob Hurley and basketball's most improbable dynasty
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Description
In 31 years as head basketball coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has won 22 state titles. One might expect St. Anthony to be a sprawling urban campus with thousands of students from which to cull elite basketball players. On the contrary, it's a tiny school, constantly on the edge of bankruptcy and held together by a determined band of Felician nuns. Nearly all of Hurley's players have attended college, many on...
55) Crooked Arrows
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Former star lacrosse player Joe Logan agrees to coach a rag-tag team of native American lacrosse players who are long-time losers, despite lacrosse being part of their tribal heritage for centuries.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Presents an account of what happened when the coach of the white suburban Shorewood High School in Milwaukee got the idea of joining with the predominantly African-American Messmer High School to create a football squad during the 2001 season, discussing their struggles to maintain racial harmony while trying a bond into a winning team.
Author
Series
Haikyu!! volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The team works hard at their training camp, preparing thoroughly for their upcoming practice game against Nekoma.
58) Hoopers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Set in Toronto, Hoopers is about a Black youth who wants to live the basketball dream of fame and acclaim. Jojo and his friends know that once they make the Squad, their high-school team, they will have the time of their lives. But their no-nonsense coach is strict, even mean, and seems to repeatedly target Jojo. Emphasizing the real qualities of hard work and dedication, Hoopers shows how Jojo learns how to be a skilled player and leader for his...
Author
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 in the northernmost town in the...
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