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1) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
This time. John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed,...
2) Home
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Suzy has joined the high school gymnastics team, but faces pressures from her team, her coach, and her mother when an injury sidelines her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Because she is now over six feet tall everybody expects Juniper to be good at basketball, especially her demanding coach (who also happens to be her father)--but she is not sure that she even likes basketball, and she definitely does not like the pressure that she feels when she misses a shot and her father benches her.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Mo is new to ice hockey and is having trouble staying upright on the ice, but his desire to help the team motivates him to keep getting better.
Author
Series
Travis McKinley volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear: go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home--Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
8) Home court
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Lew loves playing on his community center's basketball team. He is shocked when he learns that the community center might be shutting down, jeopardizing the future of the team. With no school teams available to them, Lew and his friends worry they won't get to compete in basketball at all. Can Lew and his teammates find a way to keep the center open and give their team the opportunity to win big on their home court?
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jack Wickman is tired of skating in his big sister's shadow, after all she is five years older and a goalie (on the boys' team!) and he skates center so they really should not be compared to each other--he is convinced that he has the hockey talent, so all he needs is the chance to make a breakaway of his own.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
11) The horsewoman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sharing the dream of being the best horsewoman in the world, Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter champion riders, break their vow of never going up against each other when they both participate in the competitions leading up to the Olympics.
12) Dolphin rescue
Author
Series
Animal Planet adventures volume 1
Publisher
Published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to a summer of lobster trapping, helping with the family business, and volunteering at the aquarium in coastal Maine, siblings Maddie and Atticus are challenged to use their animal knowledge to rescue a trapped dolphin.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows Isabel, the best bunjitsu artist in her class, as she makes friends, faces her fears, and more.
16) Long lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contacted by a woman with whom he had an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret.