- Table View
- List View
Reed (Wolfbay Wings #9)
by Bruce BrooksReed is a scoring machine an aggressive, mean player who can manufacture breakaways from thin air and shoot like a pro. When his selfish style of play gets him kicked off the Bowie A's, he joins the Wolfbay Wings. Reeds determined to be the best on his new team and not just because his sadistic older brothers will put him in the hospital if he isn't. But one of his bad moves puts a teammate out of commission, and Reeds forced to play defense or not at all. Reeds always thought that defense men are wimps who just couldn't make it as centers. Can he learn to play defense when everything inside him screams offense?
Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery
by Jamie Lee CurtisA wistful book, mostly in rhyme, of what happens with balloons that get away.
Prince (Wolfbay Wings #5)
by Bruce BrooksWhen Prince, the Wolfbay Wings' only black hockey player, is aggressively recruited to play for the basketball team, he is torn between the sport he and his grandfather know and love and the sport that everyone else thinks he ought to play.
For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me
by Eloise Greenfield Jan Spivey GilchristThis inspiring poem encourages children to view life with the same determination and passion that Michael Jordan displays in how he plays basketball. By listening to their inner voice and looking to those who love and support them, children can find their own way to fly. Distinguished poet Eloise Greenfield and celebrated artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist honor the beauty of the human spirit and offer a timeless message that will resonate with readers young and old.
Hard Ball
by Will WeaverA fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
Kick, Pass, and Run (I Can Read! #Level 2)
by Leonard KesslerAfter observing a boy's football game, a group of animals organizes its own teams and game.
Summer Rules
by Robert LipsyteA teen-age boy has to deal with an unwanted summer camp job, his first love, and some crucial decisions.
Farm Team
by Will WeaverWith his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
Striking Out
by Will WeaverSince the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
Fox Running
by R. R. KnudsonA young Native American girl is recruited to the Uinta University track team.
Stealing Home
by Mary StolzWhen Thomas's great-aunt Linzy writes that she is coming to Chicago for a visit, Grandfather and Thomas have a sinking feeling. Linzy has no use at all for baseball and fishing. Her sport is cleaning--anything and everything in sight. It's going to be a long summer.
Hawk: Skateboarder
by Tony Hawk Sean MortimerThe grand master of extreme skateboarding, a.k.a. "The Birdman", shares the trials and tribulations that have made him a legend in skateboarding.
Pitching around Fidel
by S. L. PriceA true story outlining a journalist's two visits to Cuba to investigate sports in the country.
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
by Jane LeavyIn an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity.
Knockdown
by Dick FrancisFrom the book cover: Mrs. Kerry Sanders, a rich American lady whose voice had overtones of silk hats, champagne, and Royal Lawns, and whose fingers were encrusted with diamonds, didn't think much of the weather, which was very wet. She sounded generally cranky. "This," she said in disbelief, "is Ascot goddam Sales?" It was. The wind was whistling through the ring's wooden O, and to one side of it, in the magnificent turn-of-the-century stable-yard's boxes, were the horses who would be offered for sale last in the program. Mrs. Sanders had asked Jonah Dereham, ex-prize-winning jockey, and now a horse buyer, to advise her-she wanted to buy a steeplechaser for a young man, who was the son of her special friend. They bought the horse Jonah decided on at the auction, for seven thousand five hundred dollars. "More than I authorized you to spend," the lady said. "And your commission on top, I guess, as well." She added, "In the States you couldn't buy a three-legged polo pony for that money." The young man for whom the horse was destined was Nicol Brevett-a hard, forceful young man, with a temper like a flamethrower. His father was Constantine Brevett, and Jonah feit that any woman who could interest Constantine Brevett had to be of a sophistication that would put Faberge eggs to shame. And-well, there was something more than wealth and sophistication involved in this horse trade. For as Jonah started to leave the sales, he was hit a crushing blow on the head, and a voice said to him, "We don't want your money. We want your horse." Jonah had suddenly become more entangled than was healthy in the corrupt and dangerous business the world of the horse buyer enfolds. This is a very exciting Dick Francis novel-and the reader will become more and more nervous as he follows the fast and chilling plot. "The announcement of a new Dick Francis is as promising of excitement as the bugle call to the post. Knockdown is one of his best, and his best is very good indeed," says Heywood Hale Broun. And the London Sunday Times says, "The superlatives for Mr. Francis' books are pretty nearly exhausted by now; so one can only say that this is another wonderfully effective horsey thriller, to do with bloodstock agents-sound stuff, Mr. Francis."
Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson
by Larry PlattFilled with exclusive interview material granted through unprecedented access to Allen Iverson, the iconic basketball superstar himself, "Only the Strong Survive" provides an in-depth look at the truth behind this newly minted legend.
Frozen Rodeo
by Catherine ClarkSummer is supposed to be fun. Right? Peggy Fleming Farrell's summer has taken a turn for the worse: She works at the Gas 'n Git to pay back her parents for wrecking two cars, takes summer school French from a succession of increasingly lame substitute teachers, loves an IHOP waiter, and attends Lamaze class with her mother while her father prepares for his professional ice-skating comeback (read: midlife crisis). Just when the only exciting event looming before her is the town's annual Rodeo Roundup Days -- "exciting" being a relative term -- things take an unexpected turn for the better. Between hijinks with a hijacked golf cart, plans for streaking at the Rodeo parade, and a showdown over pancakes, Peggy's summer becomes more about mayhem than money management, and definitely something close to fun. Even if she never learns to speak French.
Summer of '49
by David HalberstamPost World War II baseball with a focus on the Yankees and Red Sox in 1949.
Warrior Angel
by Robert LipsyteSonny Bear is a champion. . . but he needs the help of an angel. Sonny Bear, the Tomahawk Kid, is on a fast downhill slide with the heavyweight championship at stake. He hardly knows who he is anymore, or why he should keep on fighting. Then the first e-mail arrives. Do not lose heart. I come on a Mission from the Creator to save you. -- Warrior Angel The Warrior Angel might be just what Sonny Bear needs -- but will Sonny be prepared to save him, too?
Foul!: The Connie Hawkins Story
by David WolfThis book is about a professional basketball player, Connie Hawkins, but it is also about American athletics. The hope and despair of the ghetto schoolyard, the cutthroat college recruiting, the camaraderie and dissension in the locker room, the gambling scandals, the blacklists, the legal battles - Hawkins has been through them all. For eight years, the graceful, 6'8" Hawkins was an outcast, playing in tainted obscurity, blacklisted by the NBA. As a frightened teenager, he had made false confessions - under police pressure - and was wrongfully implicated in a fixing scandal. David Wolf's magazine acticle dramatically cleared Hawkins in 1969. Foul! in Connie Hawkin's story, a meticulously documented, remarkably candid biography of one of our greatest athletes. A compelling portrait of a unique and perceptive black man, it is also a behind-the-scenes look at basketball.
Jeffrey's Ghost and the Leftover Baseball Team
by David A. AdlerA baseball team of children no one else wants on a team turns into a team of winners with the help of a friendly boy ghost.
The Great American Novel
by Philip RothWord Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories.
The Snake in the Sandtrap
by Lee Trevino Sam BlairAutobiography of one of the PGA Tour's most colorful characters, "The Merry Mex," Lee Trevino.
The Grasshopper Trap
by Patrick F. McmanusThe bestselling author of They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? is at it again with more of his zany spoofs of The Great Outdoors.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health
by Erika PetersThis guide walks readers through an easy, safe, and inexpensive way to fitness, discussing the importance of stretching, what clothing to wear, and where to walk safely, and offers walking programs that readers can co-ordinate their lives around, or fit into their busy schedule.