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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"This book explores controversies in sports, including black boxer Jack Johnson, Jessie Owens in the 1936 Olympics, Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, Muhammad Ali's refusal to fight in the Vietnam War, #MeToo and the US gymnastics team, and much more"--
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
3) LeBron James
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaleidocope Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title introduces readers to LeBron James, covering his early life, career, and life off the court. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled 'stupid'--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--Provided by publisher....
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Language
English
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Description
"Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world. Coronado is Maggie's horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood. Sky is Becky's horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood. Only James Patterson could bring you such breakneck speed,...
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Language
English
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Description
"You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule containswisdom...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to play basketball. They didn't know whom they would play against. But when they came face to face with their opponents, they quickly realized this secret...
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve.
15) The replay
Author
Publisher
Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Take a front-row seat, and relive history's greatest sports moments as they happened."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A revelatory account based on access to the NCAA's highest-level programs throughout the 2012 season describes its system of billion-dollar television deals, high-priced coaches, football "hostessing," castoff athlete-students, and paid test takers.
18) Sooley: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After suffering a career-ending knee injury, pro-baseball superstar Jimmy Easton (Dave Stone) returns to a place he has not been in a very long time -- home. Here, Jimmy confronts dark memories from a tragic past as he tries to make peace with a life he once left behind. Things take an unexpected turn when he is forced back into the world of baseball as the coach of an underachieving college team. Coach Jimmy's rocky relationship with Brandon Elliot...
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