Matt Christopher sports fiction
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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,...
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Little Lefty
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11) Johnny Long Legs
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English
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Even though he is the tallest member of the basketball team, a young boy finds he is far from being the best player.
13) Face-off
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1972
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English
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Although he loves the game, a young hockey player discovers he is handicapped while playing by his fear of the puck.
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Soccer hero
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20) Soccer halfback
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Little, Brown
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English
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A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.
21) Dirt bike racer
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English
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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
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English
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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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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1982
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English
Description
When he inherits a racing car, sixteen-year-old Ken determines to become a drag racer.
30) Ice magic
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Language
English
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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
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987
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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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English
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Disappointed at first by not being large enough to make quarterback, Boots discovers that there is as much challenge in playing tackle.
33) Run, Billy, run
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Pub. Date
c1980
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English
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When 14-year-old Billy joins the track team, he improves his running and other areas of his life too.
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Shortstop from Tokyo
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37) Takedown
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English
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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.
39) Skateboard tough
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
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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.
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Series
Home run kid series volume 2
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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.
44) Pressure play
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Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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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
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English
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Dana Bellamy searches for the truth behind the fire for which his father is being blamed.
47) Baseball flyhawk
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English
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Chico, a native of Puerto Rico and an excellent swimmer, joins the Royals baseball team but has trouble making friends with String, the most popular member of the team.
49) Fighting tackle
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English
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When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
53) Olympic dream
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English
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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
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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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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Prime-time pitcher
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Soccer scoop
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Spike it!
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67) Soccer duel
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Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Team rivalry threatens to spoil a budding friendship between a showy soccer player, Bryce, and soft-spoken but talented Renny.
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Tennis ace
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Wheel wizards
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Cool as ice
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Inline skater
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Windmill windup
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73) Dive right in
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2002
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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
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Theo, overweight and out of shape, finds that with his friend's support he just might be able to run in the race to raise money to help cancer patients like his aunt.
76) Body check
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Brent Mullen discovers that the new assistant hockey coach is teaching the defensemen on his team illegal moves to help them win at any cost.
77) Fairway phenom
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2003
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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?
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
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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.
81) Stealing home
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
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.
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Series
Home run kid series volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After spraining his ankle before the beginning of the baseball season, Sylvester Coddmyer III meets an ex-ballplayer who offers him a solution to his problem.
85) Karate kick
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English
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Cole faces a series of challenges as he finds himself torn between practicing for his next belt test or competing in a "create-your-own kata" contest, and also in trouble with a group of local teens and then his best friends. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Home run slugger Sylvester Coddmyer the Third has an amazing secret. For three seasons, he's been coached by men who look exactly like baseball legends: Babe Ruth, Eddie Cicotte, and Mickey Mantle. Are these men just impersonating famous ballplayers, as his friend Duane insists? Or are they from the "beyond," as Snooky Malone believes? The mystery deepens in this fourth title of the exciting Home Run Kid series when yet another character from baseball's...
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Hook shot hero
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88) Out at second
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English
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"When his teammate Stu is injured during practice, Manny promises to keep quiet so he can play, but then Stu starts acting funny, and Manny struggles with whether to keep his silence or break his promise and let his team down" --
