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41) Why we fly
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Language
English
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Description
Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.
It's been a rocky start to senior year. Eleanor is still in physical therapy months after a serious concussion from a failed cheer attempt; Chanel is putting tremendous pressure on herself to get into the best colleges. Eleanor's new relationship...
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Series
Winning season volume 5
Language
English
Description
When the Hornets lose their quarterback for the season and the replacement lacks the talent to take charge, the coach picks a solid receiver as emergency quarterback.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 1
Language
English
Description
After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the middle school football team, using determination, speed, and smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.
48) Swimming home
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel of a young woman swimmer in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she's done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything...
50) Bumped up
Author
Series
Volleyball volume 01
Publisher
Lechner Syndications
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
"Alarm. Breakfast. Bus. Bio. Spanish. Socials. Study. Lunch. Calc. Humanities. Bell. And then the day starts. Knee pads, ponytail. Full court. No drama ... But drama is just the beginning when senior Annette Reynolds recruits incoming freshman Payton Moore to play for the varsity team. Payton quickly finds that her superior basketball talent doesn't translate to the volleyball court, resulting in a divided team and a rift between Payton and her best...
51) Block city
Author
Series
Volleyball volume 03
Publisher
Lechner Syndications
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
"The new leaders of the varsity team, Payton and Renika are ready to take it to the next level by getting the Hickory Academy volleyball team to State for the first time. But when Renika takes her leadership responsibilities a little too seriously, things begin to spin out of control. Payton, on the other hand is too busy trying to find her lost passion for the game to notice or help her friend who has become less of a leader and more of a drill sergeant....
52) Sports camp
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Riley Liston tries to fit in at Camp Olympia, a summer sports camp where he is one of the youngest boys.
53) Karate kick
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
All-American sports stories volume 1
Publisher
Airship 27 Productions
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"In the grand tradition of those early sports pulp, Airship 27 Productions offers up a quartet of exceptional sports stories by today's best fiction writers all set in the 1930s. Terrence McCauley delivers up the tale of a former moonshiner looking to make his fortune on dirt tracks of stockcar racing. J. Walt Layne details one of the first interracial college football games ever played. Up next John Rose gets us into the ring with a boxing prodigy...
56) Crash course
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Series
Hover car racer volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jason Chaser races hover cars. Jason and his brother, "the Bug," have been accepted to the International Race School, where they race against great difficulties. Jason Chaser has the need for speed-hyper speed. With his brother, the Bug, navigating, the fourteen-year-old hover car racing phenom is geared up to take the world by storm. Jason's first stop, however, is the prestigious International Race School, where he has to match...
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Series
Volleyball volume 02
Publisher
Lechner Syndications
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
"Payton and Renika are back for another season of Hickory Adams High volleyball action. Payton still hasn't quite figured out how to transfer her superstar basketball skills to the volleyball court and the new JV players are all too aware of her lack of skill even though the coach still has her starting. When Renika tries to intervene and pull the JV team together, she finds that the new girl Val is out to sabotage Payton's authority, resulting in...
59) Get a hit, Mo!
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Language
English
Description
Baseball season has arrived and Mo Jackson is all set to play with his team, the Lions. But Mo always bats last, and he always plays right field-- and no balls ever come to right field. Mo wants to get a home run, but he keeps striking out. His team is losing! Will Mo ever get his chance to help the Lions win?