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TITLE: The Crossover: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. |
TITLE: Check, Please! Vol. 1, #Hockey (Coming soon!)
AUTHOR: Ngozi Ukazu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Uka - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtisser, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. |
TITLE: Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
AUTHOR: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Abd SUMMARY: An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change. |
TITLE: Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
AUTHOR: Andrew Maraniss WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.48 Mar SUMMARY: The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany. |
TITLE: Glory Hounds: How a Small Northwest School Reshaped College Basketball. And Itself.
AUTHOR: Bud Withers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.323 Wit SUMMARY: Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won games in the NCAA tournament of 1999, going all the way to the Elite Eight. Then they validated their arrival with Sweet 16 appearances the next two years. Unlike other unheralded programs that have emerged to make national headlines, the Zags didn't go away. They have stacked solid season upon solid season and as they enter 2016-17, they boast an 18-year streak of playing in the NCAA tournament -- a run of success that includes eight straight years of March Madness victories. A few years after the men's program took off, the Gonzaga women also reached unprecedented heights -- partly with the help of a fan base that couldn't get tickets to the men's games, but pushed the women to a top-15 national ranking in attendance. "Glory Hounds" is the story of how it all came together at Gonzaga for both men and women, how it changed the school, and how -- in a turbulent time of here-and-gone players in college basketball -- it continues. |
TITLE: Assisted
AUTHOR: John Stockton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sto SUMMARY: A basketball player known for his vast amounts of assists and steals, and for helping the Utah Jazz make the playoffs all of his nineteen seasons with the team, chronicles his life and the people, places, and events that have influenced him. |
TITLE: 99: Stories of the Game
AUTHOR: Wayne Gretzky WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.962 Gre SUMMARY: Wayne Gretzky discusses his life and record breaking hockey career. |
TITLE: Booked
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. |
TITLE: Swing
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything. |
TITLE: The Running Dream
AUTHOR: Wendelin Van Draanen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Van - NOVELS SUMMARY: When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again. |
TITLE: Boy 21
AUTHOR: Matthew Quick WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Qui - NOVELS SUMMARY: Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences. |
TITLE: Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2020
WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 794.8 Gui SUMMARY: Discusses the successful relationship between Patriots' coach Bill Belichick and their quarterback Tom Brady, including how they won four Super Bowls, six AFC championships, and thirteen division titles. |
TITLE: Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football
AUTHOR: Michael Holley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.332 Hol SUMMARY: Discusses the successful relationship between Patriots' coach Bill Belichick and their quarterback Tom Brady, including how they won four Super Bowls, six AFC championships, and thirteen division titles. |
TITLE: The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
AUTHOR: Edited by Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.83 Bit SUMMARY: Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport—and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or cynicism common to writing on boxing, The Bittersweet Science is a collection of essays about boxing by contributors who are not only skilled writers but also have extensive firsthand experience at ringside and in the gym, the corner, and the ring itself. |
TITLE: Hoops
AUTHOR: Walter Dean Myers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mye - NOVELS SUMMARY: A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake. |
TITLE: Top Prospect
AUTHOR: Paul Volponi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Vol - NOVELS SUMMARY: Travis, a pre-teen quarterback with big potential, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the coach of Gainesville University football program offers him a scholarship before Travis even gets to high school. |
TITLE: The Cooperstown Casebook: Who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Who Should Be In, and Who Should Pack Their Plaques
AUTHOR: Jay Jaffe WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.357 Jaf SUMMARY: Sports Illustrated writer Jay Jaffe looks at players who have and have not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and explains the system he created to rank players. |
TITLE: The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.01 Ale SUMMARY: Kwame Alexander shares poetry and inspiring lessons about the rules of life, as well as uplifting quotes from athletes such as Stephen Curry and Venus Williams and other exemplars like Sonia Sotomayor and Michelle Obama in this motivational and inspirational book just right for graduates of any age and anyone needing a little encouragement. |
TITLE: Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars
AUTHOR: Gregory Zuckerman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796 Zuc SUMMARY: Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome in 6th grade. He went on to become a national treasure after single-handedly keeping America competitive in the 2014 World Cup. Stephen Curry was told he was too small, too weak, and too slow to even receive a scholarship to play college basketball. He outworked everyone and went on to become MVP of the National Basketball Association. Jim Abbott was born without his right hand, yet he refused to be defined by what he lacked. He went on to pitch a no-hitter in the Major Leagues.Athlete after athlete in this book found discipline, hope, and inspiration on the playing field, rising above their circumstances. Filled with first-hand accounts from stars who exemplify the idea of enduring at all costs, Rising Above will serve as a must-read source of inspiration for kids and sports fans of all ages. |
TITLE: Side-by-Side Football Stars: Comparing Pro Football's Greatest Players
AUTHOR: Shane Frederick WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.332 Fre SUMMARY: Compares the greatest pro football players in history. |
TITLE: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
AUTHOR: Christopher McDougall WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.42 Fre SUMMARY: The author describes his work with Caballo Blanco, an outsider who befriended the Tarahumara Indians, in which the two men organized a running event between the tribesmen, who are considered to have superhuman running abilities, and Americans, including a ultramarathoner, a surfer, and others; and includes facts about techniques and the history of running. |
TITLE: Rucker Park Setup
AUTHOR: Paul Volponi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Vol - NOVELS SUMMARY: While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened. |
TITLE: How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle
AUTHOR: Matt Fitzgerald WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796 Fit SUMMARY: Fitzgerald puts you into the pulse-pounding action of more than a dozen epic races from running, cycling, triathlon, XTERRA, and rowing with thrilling race reports and revealing post-race interviews with the elites. Their own words reinforce what the research has found: strong mental fitness lets us approach our true physical limits, giving us an edge over physically stronger competitors. Each chapter explores the how and why of an elite athlete's transformative moment, revealing powerful new psycho-biological principles you can practice to flex your own mental fitness. |
TITLE: Knights of the Hill Country
AUTHOR: Tim Tharp WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tha - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: Roller Girl
AUTHOR: Victoria Jamieson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for derby camp, Nicole decides to go to dance camp instead. And so begins the most difficult summer of Astrid's life as she struggles to keep up with the older girls at camp, hang on to the friend she feels slipping away, and cautiously embark on a new friendship. As the end of summer nears and her first roller derby bout (and junior high!) draws closer, Astrid realizes that maybe she is strong enough to handle the bout, a lost friendship, and middle school… in short, strong enough to be a roller girl. |
TITLE: Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More
AUTHOR: Dustin Hansen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 794.8 Han SUMMARY: A middle-grade nonfiction book about the history and impact on pop culture of video games. |
TITLE: Leverage
AUTHOR: Joshua C. Cohen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Coh - NOVELS SUMMARY: High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny. |
TITLE: Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport
AUTHOR: Simon Kuper WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.334 Kup SUMMARY: Goes behind the scenes with soccer's greatest players and coaches, describing their upbringings, the soccer cultures they grew up in, the way they play, and the baggage they bring to their relationships at work. |
TITLE: Rebound
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past. |
TITLE: The Crossover
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. |
TITLE: Last Shot
AUTHOR: John Feinstein WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fei - MYSTERY SUMMARY: After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game. |
TITLE: Learning the Game
AUTHOR: Kevin Waltman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wal - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
AUTHOR: H.G. Bissinger WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.332 Bis SUMMARY: Follows the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, exploring the lives of the players and the impact of the championship team on the small town. |
TITLE: Ball Don't Lie
AUTHOR: Matt de la Peña WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pen - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: All Heart: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
AUTHOR: Carli Lloyd WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.334 Llo SUMMARY: A younger reader's edition of the memoir by the Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion describes the low confidence that nearly prompted her to quit soccer and how she worked through her doubts to help lead the U.S. women's national soccer team in a record-setting World Cup series. |
TITLE: Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
AUTHOR: Larry Colton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.323 Col SUMMARY: Presents a study of the girls' basketball team at Hardin High School on the Crow reservation in Montana, focusing on talented young player Sharon LaForge, and examines the social conditions that prevent her and other Native American athletes from reaching their potential on and off the court. |