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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) Heat
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
4) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
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
Home team novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
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.
10) The extra yard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge"--
11) Travel team
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court--but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn't the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player...
12) Summer ball
Author
Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
13) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
14) The batboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
17) Team players
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A girl with Asperger's joins Cassie's softball team but not everyone on the team welcomes her, creating a rift between Cassie and her teammates"--
18) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
19) The turnover
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather"--
20) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
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