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All You've Got Golden girl Lauren is Villa Madonna Academy's star volleyball player and leader of the Madonnas. Spitfire Gabby leads the Reinas at archrival school Scared Heart. Both girls and teams sport mad skills on the court. The competition is killer. But a twist of fate merges the Madonnas and the Reinas into one school. And one volleyball team. Now there's more at stake than winning or losing -- the girls will have to battle just to make the cut. subjects: Volleyball, High School Students, Girl's Schools, Catholic High Schools, Friendship |
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Amazing Grace Tennis has a new "it" girl and her name is Grace Kincaid. The only problem is -- Grace has suddenly realized that being a teen sensation isn't all it's cracked up to be. With fame and fortune just a backswing away, all she really wants is to be ...NORMAL! subjects: Tennis Players |
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Ball Don't Lie Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream. awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2006, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2006 subjects: Basketball, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Foster Home Care, Race Relations, Los Angeles (Calif.) |
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Black and White Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2006, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2006, IRA Children's Book Award 2006 subjects: African Americans, Race Relations, Basketball, Juvenile Delinquency, High Schools |
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Born in Sin Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor. awards: Black-eyed Susan Award Nominees 2005, Volunteer State Book Award Nominees 2004, Texas: Tayshas Reading List 2003 subjects: African Americans, Swimming |
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Burning City Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love. subjects: Messengers, Cycling, Heat Waves (Meteorology), Love, Grandparents, Bicycles and Bicycling, New York (N.Y.) |
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Crackback Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs. awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2006 subjects: Football, Fathers and Sons, Coaching (Athletics), Steroids, Drug Abuse, High Schools |
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Dairy Queen After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. Sequel: The Off Season subjects: Football, Farm Life, Football |
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Double Dutch Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies. awards: Bluegrass Award Nominees: 2004, Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees 2006, Black-eyed Susan Award Nominees 2006, South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominees 2007, Florida Sunshine State Young Reader Award Nominee: 2007 subjects: Rope Skipping, Contests, Dyslexia, Friendship, African Americans, Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio) |
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Fighting Ruben Wolfe Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring. subjects: Boxing, Brothers |
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Grind When Wally is badly injured skateboarding, Phillip must decide what is more important-- skating or making things right with friends. subjects: Skateboarding, Web Sites |
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Gym Candy Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life. subjects: Football, Fathers and Sons, High Schools, Family Life, Washington (State) |
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Headlock High school senior Kyle is determined to become a professional wrestler but his dream is threatened by a loved one's illness and the dramatic reappearance of a long-absent relative. subjects: Wrestling, Grandmothers, Mothers and Sons |
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High Heat When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart. awards: Texas Lone Star Reading List: 2005, Indian Paintbrush Award Nominees: 2004, Lincoln Award Nominees: 2007 subjects: Fathers, Family Problems, Baseball, High Schools, Suicide |
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Hoops of Steel Passionate about basketball, troubled teenager Jackson O'Connell chronicles the ways the game colors the events of his senior year in high school. subjects: Basketball, Interpersonal Relations, High Schools |
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Ironman While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father. subjects: Interpersonal Relations, Fathers and Sons, Triathlon |
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Knights of the Hill Country In his senior year, high school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself and discovers that he might be interested in more than just football. subjects: Football, Identity, High Schools, Coming of Age, Oklahoma |
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Learning the Game When he and his high-school basketball teammates steal from a fraternity house in their small Indiana town, Nate contends with his guilt, his loyalty to his friends, and his desire to help his older brother who comes under suspicion for the crime. subjects: Conduct of Life, Stealing, Brothers, Interpersonal Relations, Basketball, Indiana |
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Pinned Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship. subjects: Wrestling, Family Problems, Friendship, Competition (Psychology), New Jersey |
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Raiders Night Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs. subjects: Steroids, Drug Abuse, Rape, Football |
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Samurai Shortstop While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father. awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2007 subjects: Samurai, Fathers and Sons, Baseball, Boarding Schools, Japan History Meiji Period |
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Slam! Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. awards: Coretta Scott King Author Award 1997 subjects: Basketball, African Americans, High Schools, Prejudices |
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Stotan A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina. subjects: Swimming-Training, High Schools |
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Warrior Angel Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title. subjects: Boxing |
List updated June 2008— Patti Cook
