Fiction and Nonfiction with Game!

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: A TOWN, A TEAM, AND A DREAM
by H.G. Bissinger
The culture of high school football in small-town America.

IN THESE GIRLS, HOPE IS A MUSCLE
by Madeleine Blais
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle offers a riveting close-up of the girls on a high school basketball team whose passion for the sport is rivaled only by their loyalty to one another.

TANGERINE
by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

THE MOVES MAKE THE MAN
by Bruce Brooks
Jerome likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball. Then Jerome meets Bix Rivers–mysterious and moody, but a great athlete. So Jerome decides to teach Bix his game.

BORN IN SIN
by Evelyn Coleman
Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

COUNTING COUP: A TRUE STORY OF BASKETBALL AND HONOR ON THE LITTLE BIG HORN
by Larry Colton
A brilliant account of a teenage Native American girl who fought for honor on and off the basketball courts.

IRONMAN
by Chris Crutcher
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school, which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

FAT BOY SWIM
by Catherine Forde
Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish teenager who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim.

SHOELESS JOE
by W.P. Kinsella
"If you build it, he will come." Those mysterious words of an Iowa baseball announcer lead Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson.

PRINCE OF TENNIS: VOLUME 1
by Takeshi Konomi
Ryoma Echizen just joined the Seishun Gakuen Middle School tennis team, which is known for being one of the most competitive teams in Japan. With his skills, Ryoma challenges a rule of Seishun Gakuen that freshmen don't represent the team to play in tournaments until summer. The Entire Prince of Tennis Series.

STRIKE TWO
by Amy Goldman Koss
Haley's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Gwen is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.

SWOLLEN
by Melissa Lion
A teenaged girl copes with the death of a star track and field athlete by running.

IN THE BREAK
by Jack Lopez
Surfing is Juan Barrela's life but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico to help her brother hide until tragedy strikes the trio.

PINNED
by Alfred Martino
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.

HOOPS
by Walter Dean Myers
A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.

SLAM!
by Walter Dean Myers
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

HANA KIMI: FOR YOU IN FULL BLOSSOM: BOOK 1
by Hisaya Nakajo
Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself a transfer to a high school in Japan. To be close to her idol high jumper, Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys school and disguising herself as a boy! The Entire Hana Kimi: For You in Full Blossom Series.

THREE CLAMS AND AN OYSTER
by Randy Powell
During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.

UNDER THE BASEBALL MOON
by John H. Ritter
Andy and Glory, two fifteen-year-olds from Ocean Beach, California, pursue their respective dreams of becoming a famous musician and a professional softball player.

BIKER GIRL
by Misako Rocks
Bookish schoolgirl by day, biker hero by night, Aki sets out to avenge her cousin's death after she finds a magic bike in her grandfather's garage.

AMAZING GRACE
by Megan Shull
Tennis has a new "it" girl and her name is Grace Kincaid. The only problem is Grace has suddenly realized that being a teen sensation isn't all it's cracked up to be. With fame and fortune just a backswing away, all she really wants is to be normal!

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