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2) Soar
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English
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Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
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Series
Game changers volume 1
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English
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When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
National Hobby Month - Children's Stories
Storytime @ Home: Summer Olympics
National Hobby Month - Children's Stories
Storytime @ Home: Summer Olympics
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Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all his friends come over to help him practice before the tryout.
6) The Babe & I
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
7) Play makers
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Series
Game changers volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
8) Hat trick
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Series
Soccer Cats volume 4
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets his picture in the paper for scoring three goals in a soccer game, Stookie tries to emulate his feat.
10) The golden acorn
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English
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When the Golden Nut Hunt race becomes a team event, will speedy Squirrel's competitive spirit take over, or will she learn how to be a team player?
11) Jump serve
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English
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Ella and Laura can't believe it when two of the meanest girls from a rival volleyball team switch to their team. Before long, it's clear that the new girls don't plan to be good teammates. Is there any hope for a championship, or was the season ruined before it began?
12) Team PJ Masks
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Night Ninja and his Ninjalinos are playing sticky splat soccer in the city! Owlette must coach her friends so they can stop Night Ninja and bring the PJ Masks team to victory!"--Provided by publisher.
13) Game
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English
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If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
14) Little Shaq
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Series
Little Shaq volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Seven-year-old Shaquille O'Neal, a talented basketball and video game player, learns to share the spotlight with his cousin Barry when the youngsters work together to earn money by watering plants.
15) Basketball Bats
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.
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Series
Oddrey volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Maybelline encourages Oddrey to join the school soccer team, the Piccadilla Bees, but it's not long before their big game against the Quagville Crushers. The Bees are struggling to find their stride, but Oddrey's convinced she has a solution.
17) Hot shot
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Julian Pryce was star center on an undefeated basketball team before moving to a new town, where he quickly gets on the wrong side of the starting center, whose father happens to be their coach.
18) True legend
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
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Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 23
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mallory is excited to participate in a new girls' basketball league, although she has never played and her best friends are not interested, but as the worst player on her team she realizes she has a lot to learn.
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