Matt Christopher sports fiction
Author
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1956]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the captain of his little league baseball team, Jimmie Todd thinks he should be able to choose any position he wants. He wants to pitch, although the other players on the team would rather give that position to Paul Karoski, a left-hander with a talent for pitching strikeouts. But Jimmie wants a chance so badly that he takes the position for himself. It isn't long before his weak pitching sets the team on a losing streak that has everyone, especially,...
2)
Little Lefty
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3)
Touchdown for Tommy
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4)
Wingman on ice
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5)
Too hot to handle
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6)
The reluctant pitcher
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7)
Miracle at the plate
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8)
The year Mom won the pennant
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10)
Hard drive to short
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11)
Johnny Long Legs
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12)
Look who's playing first base
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13)
Face-off
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16)
Soccer hero
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20) Soccer halfback
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1978]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.
21) Dirt bike racer
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1979]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ron Baker finds a minibike while scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider and racer, restores the bike and enters competition.
22) Tight end
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1981]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.
23)
Drag-strip racer
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25)
The great quarterback switch
Author
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Penny Farrell, captain and third baseman of the Hawks softball team, tries to uncover the reason for the strange behavior of two teammates who have also suddenly turned into super athletes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Abducted by a "fan" and forced to become a member of a professional junior hockey team, thirteen-year-old star center, Steve Crandall quickly realizes that he must play not only to win but to survive.
29)
The kid who only hit homers
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30) Ice magic
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The twins' toy hockey game seems to be magic as it plays games identical to the real ones before they even happen.
31) Red-hot hightops
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelly becomes a confident and aggressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds.
32)
Tough to tackle
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33) Run, Billy, run
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1980]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Billy joins the track team, he improves his running and other areas of his life too.
34)
Shortstop from Tokyo
Author
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Unjustly dismissed from the football team for drug possession, Scott learns that only by finding out who planted the marijuana in his duffel bag can he clear himself with his parents.
36)
The counterfeit tackle
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37) Takedown
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
As he is helped by an assistant referee to prepare for a wrestling match with the neighborhood bully, Sean begins to wonder if his mentor could be his long-lost father.
38)
The basket counts
Author
39) Skateboard tough
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Brett's skateboarding abilities dramatically and inexplicably improve after using the Lizard, a skateboard mysteriously unearthed in his front yard, his friends start to wonder if the skateboard is haunted.
40)
Challenge at second base
Author
Author
Series
Home run kid series volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
43)
Long stretch at first base
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44) Pressure play
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Travis, less obsessed with baseball than his fellow team members, tries to balance his playing with his hobby of horror videos and starts receiving anonymous threats warning him to spend more time on baseball.
45) Top wing
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Dana Bellamy searches for the truth behind the fire for which his father is being blamed.
47) Baseball flyhawk
Author
Publisher
Little
Pub. Date
[1963]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Chico Romez is new to the Royals baseball team, but all the players welcome him and his ability in the outfield. All the players except one, that is."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising discovery about his own adoption.
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Fighting tackle
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52)
Crackerjack halfback
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53) Olympic dream
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When overweight fourteen-year-old video whiz Doug Cannon is introduced to the sport of cycling he begins a transformation that leads him to health and self-respect.
55) Penalty shot
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jeff, already worried about losing his place on the hockey team because of low grades, suddenly finds himself the victim of sabotage in the form of forged papers.
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The team that couldn't lose
Author
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Daren's tendency to blame everyone but himself when anything goes wrong causes problems with his best friend, with a young neighbor who idolizes him, and with one of his basketball teammates.
62) Soccer scoop
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When a cartoon appears in the school newspaper making fun of his tendancy to talk a lot, Mac, the goalie for the Cougars soccer team, is determined to find out who is responsible.
63)
Spike it!
Author
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cap Wadell wants to play on a "real" football team, but his middle school in a small Texas town does not have enough players--until his grandfather revives interest in the game of six-man football.
67) Soccer duel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Team rivalry threatens to spoil a budding friendship between a showy soccer player, Bryce, and soft-spoken but talented Renny.
68) Tennis ace
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Steve and Ginny are frustrated because their father ignores her talent as a tennis player while pushing him harder and harder to win at the sport.
69) Wheel wizards
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Angry and unhappy because he is now in a wheelchair and apparently no longer able to play basketball, twelve-year-old Seth is amazed to discover wheelchair basketball and finds that his life is not over after all.
70) Cool as ice
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Two friends try to prove that size and race do not matter when playing hockey or any other sport.
71) Inline skater
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Cris must choose between "aggro" skating and roller hockey, which also means choosing between his old friends and some new ones.
73) Dive right in
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Forced to quit gymnastics to avoid serious injury, twelve-year-old Traci tries to fill the void in her life by taking up diving.
75) Run for it
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
77) Fairway phenom
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Malik Edwards never had any intention of playing golf, until he sees a young black golfer being cheered on by a crowd of adoring fans. While golf's image changes for Malik, where would he get the gear or money, and where would a kid growing up in Brooklyn, New York get to play?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.
79) Slam dunk
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When a new school year starts, and thirteen-year-old basketball star Julian feels a lot of pressure as he realizes he is the only remaining player from last year's winning team, a friend's health crisis helps him regain perspective.
80) Snowboard champ
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Matt Harper steps off the plane, he knows his life is about to change. For one thing, he'll be living with his uncle for a year. For another, compared to Chicago, Dragon Valley is tiny. But so long as Matt can hit the slopes with his snowboard, he figures he'll get along okay.
81) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Joey is sure he will not get along with the exchange student from Nicaragua who is staying with his family for a year, but they find common ground on the baseball field.
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
85)
Karate kick
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87) Hook shot hero
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Tim Daniels, now fourteen, returns to Camp Wickasaukee he serves as mentor to three rookie basketball players, continues to work on keeping his short stature from getting in his way, faces a bully, and gets help from NCAA player Dick Dunbar.
88) Out at second
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a key player on the Grizzlies' baseball team is hit on the head by a ball while practicing with his friends, they must decide whether to keep his injury a secret even after he starts behaving strangely.
