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"On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He's applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he's ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable. But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie. Susan Sematov is proud of her son Raz, a high school pitcher so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But Razs father...
2) Kneel
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English
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When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
The system is rigged. For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the teams varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. But when...
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English
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"When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya 'Longshot' Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
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English
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"In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, but when his savagery crosses a line, he faces suspension. Without Billy Lowe, the Denton Pirates can kiss their playoff bid goodbye. But the head coach,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult--the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined...
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HL 670L
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English
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"After her girls' ice hockey team is cut for budget reasons, Michigan tries out for the boys' team and earns a place on the starting lineup. But when she bests her teammates with her skills and her refusal to back down, hazing crosses the line into assault." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Injured high school soccer star Peyton Rios escapes to a small southern town after an abusive relationship leaves her reeling, and meets someone new.
Star soccer player Peyton Rios has an offer from her first-choice college--until she confronts her boyfriend about performance enhancing drugs, and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Now her knee--and maybe her dream of going pro--is shattered. With her future on the line, Peyton goes to...
8) Overcomer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school basketball coach John Harrison receives unfortunate news that will change his life. The largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down, forcing many families to leave in search of other job opportunities. John and his family are faced with an uncertain future, and his dreams of winning the state basketball championship are in jeopardy. He agrees to coach the cross-country team where he meets a runner who is on her journey of discovery....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
10) Left out
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016], 2017.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt and moving story about a deaf boys journey to change how others see him--both on and off the football field.
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Publisher
Harperteen
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After an injury forces Ria off the diving team, an unexpected friendship with Cotton, a guy on the autism spectrum, helps her come to terms with the abusive relationship she's been in with her former coach. Ria Williams was an elite diver on track for the Olympics. As someone who struggled in school, largely due to her ADHD, diving was the one place Ria could shine. But while her parents were focused on the trophies, no one noticed how Coach Benny's...
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Publisher
Underlined, an imprint Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Bailey Briggs lives for Christmas music, baking cookies, snowy sleigh rides, and wearing her light-up reindeer ears to work at Winslow's bookstore. And this year, she's wishing for someone to kiss under the mistletoe. She's certain it isn't athlete Jacob Marley; Charlie and his British accent is the romantic lead of her dreams. Will Bailey stay on Santa's nice list, so that her wish will come true?
13) All Star
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Publisher
NBM Pub./ComicsLit
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1998. Carl Carter is leading the Elizabeth Monarchs of rural Vermont to the state championship his senior year. The world is Carl's oyster: a full scholarship to the University of Maine awaits, going pro after college isn't out of the question, and he's so good he can do whatever he wants--until, that is, he makes one very arrogant mistake.
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Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, theyd tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his worldletters he never intends to sendhe spills the truth: hes trying hard, but he just isnt into Theresa. Its his friend,...
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Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For Concepcion "Chon" Gonzales, the year that high school athletic stars John Robison and John Mijias left for college and never made it was the beginning of a new life in his small town and the first time he understood about love.
People in the small Texas town of Greenton lined the streets when high school athletic stars John Robison and John Mijias left for state college. They never made it there-- or back. For Concepcion "Chon" Gonzales, that...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with...
17) Washington, D.C
Author
Series
Hoop city volume 5
Publisher
EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
New coach Julius Dunbar and the basketball players of Hoop City High struggle to learn how to work together as a team.
18) Flying
Author
Publisher
a Tor Teen Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mana has always lived a normal life, albeit with an overprotective mother, until the day she comes home to find the house trashed and an alien in the garage. It turns out her mother is an alien hunter who has absconded with a piece of technology that everyone--human and alien--wants to get their hands on. When her mother's partner shows up and orders Mana to come with him, it may be up to Mana to save her mother--and the world.
19) Dallas
Author
Series
Publisher
EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bobby Dupree is a backup quarterback and has always been a backup kind of guy--both when it came to seeing the field, and also with girls. But when the starting quarterback goes down with a knee injury, things change for Bobby. He is thrust into the starting role, and the hopes of Trinity High School rest on his shoulders. Will the spotlight be too bright for him to handle?
20) 1 mile to you
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a teenager's best friends die in a tragic accident, he finds that running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him a certain notoriety, and he soon finds himself caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.