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During a football game star running back Harris Weathers takes a jarring hit and narrowly escapes injury, but after several days he is still rattled, leaving him with a tough decision--quit football or find a way to stay safe while playing the game he loves.

Playing a variety of sports, an assortment of animals introduces words that sound and are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as "bat," a flying mammal, and "bat," an implement for hitting a baseball.

After being sexually assaulted by a football star, Maggie drops out of college but cannot escape the fact that everyone blames her for what happened.

When a knee injury and a subsequent mistake threaten to end her basketball career, athletically driven Cassidy finds support in the most unlikely places--including a room filled with juvenile delinquents and the pages of an old book labeled "RL."

"Follows elite ice dancer Adriana Russo as she finds herself drawn to both her old dance partner and her new one"-- With gold-medalist parents, and her older sister headed to the Olympics, all Adriana Russo wants is to live up to the family name and stand atop the ice dance podium at the Junior World Championships. But the only thing keeping the family's legendary skating rink afloat is a deal to host the rest of the Junior Worlds team before they...

"Audrey Lee is going to the Olympics. A year ago, she could barely do a push up as she recovered from a spine surgery, one that could have paralyzed her. And now? She's made the United States' gymnastics team with her best friend, Emma, just like they both dreamed about since they were kids. She's on top of the world. The pressure for perfection is higher than ever when horrifying news rips the team apart. Audrey is desperate to advocate for her teammate...

They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They say his stomach wasa cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. What's truth, what's myth? It's hard to know. But when Jeffrey Lionel Magee wanders into

"For an athlete like Matt Daniels, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It's also the most dangerous. That's because somebody is about to pull a mean prank. The recipe is simple: just add monster blood."--Cover, p.4.

A collection of photographs, stories, and quotes designed to inspire athletes to do their best and reach for the gold, no matter what their sport or skill is.