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Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
Author
Series
Game changers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
3) Play makers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
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
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.
5) Stone Fox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
Author
Series
Game changers volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Preparing for his first all-star baseball game, Ben finds his confidence shaken when he is hit by a pitch and by the increasingly erratic behavior of his teammate, Justin, whose parents are going through a divorce.
Author
Series
Tacky the penguin books volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tacky and his fellow penguins on Team Nice Icy Land train hard for the Winter Games, but Tacky's antics make their chances of winning a medal seem slim.
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new football coach arrives at school and, with help from an unexpected new team member, the Moose win a game.
9) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pete is spending the day at the seashore. He has fun collecting shells and building a sand castle. But the beach is very hot. There is a whole ocean for Pete to cool off in, but it looks scary. Pete's brother, Bob, offers to teach Pete to surf. Will that be enough to help Pete get over his fear of the water?"--Description from Amazon.com.
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 10
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A.J.'s class is going head-to-head against Dirk School in a charity softball game. The losing team must clean the winning school's toilet with a toothbrush! Mr. Ott, retired baseball pro, intends to lead Ella Mentry School to victory, but will his weird tactics actually make the team lose?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
13) Sports
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A treasury of sports facts includes entries about the NFL touchdown thrown by a quarterback to himself, the only sport ever played on the moon, and the metal that is really used to make Olympic gold medals.
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Rafe Khatchadorian is sent to Camp Wannamorra, he teams up with his bunk mates to fend off the more "popular" kids' plans to ruin their summer"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thema has always preferred books to video games, but when her younger twin brothers show her the battle game Shrinking Island Showdown she is hooked--and with her brothers help she plans to become good enough to compete in an esports competition.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rafe Khatchadorian's new year at middle school is starting to look depressingly like the old one, except that art class is going well--and when he joins the flag-football team and demonstrates some talent as a running-back, he discovers a way of dealing with his bullying nemesis and teammate, Miller the Killer.
19) The big field
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
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