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Sports Books
Read about sports.
Soccer | Basketball | Baseball | Football | Miscellaneous
Esckilsen, Erik E.
Offsides: A Novel |
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Tom Gray loves soccer. But when he moves to a new school, he refuses to join the team. Why? Because their mascot is insulting to his culture: the Mohawk Indians. |
Bloor, Edward.
Tangerine |
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Although he's legally blind, Paul Fisher is an amazing soccer player. However, because of his "handicap," his school in Tangerine, Florida won't let him join the team. When a sinkhole opens up and swallows part of his school, Paul has the chance to move to a different one and join the team. While Paul learns a lot about himself playing with his new team, he also begins to realize that there's something wrong with his family - something that no one else can see. |
Wallace, Rich.
Shots on Goal |
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Bones has two problems: helping his team win the district playoffs, and dealing with the crush he has on his best friend's girlfriend. Can he figure out how to deal with these things, or will his problems only grow? |
Swanson, Julie A.
Going For the Record |
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Leah's biggest goal in life is to make the national soccer team. When she finds out her father has cancer and may only live a few more months, that goal quickly begins to seem pretty unimportant. |
Feinstein, John.
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery |
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Eighth grade journalists Stevie and Susan Carol have the scoop of a lifetime: a talented basketball player is being blackmailed into making his team lose the final game of the Final Four tournament. |
Deuker, Carl.
Night Hoops |
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Nick has a lot to figure out in his life: how to deal with his parents divorce; what to do about the kid across the street; and how to get onto the varsity basketball team. Will Nick learn how to compromise, in life and on the court? |
Wallace, Rich.
Playing Without the Ball: A Novel in Four Quarters |
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Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend. |
Myers, Walter Dean.
Slam! |
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It doesn't matter if Slam's grades stink. He's a great basketball player, and will get drafted into the NBA. Right? Well, maybe not…not if his coach hates him, his family's a mess and he can't stay out of trouble. |
Sweeney, Joyce.
Players |
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The St. Philips Badgers have high hopes of winning the championship this year. When a new player brings competitiveness and bad luck to the team, the team captain begins to see those hopes slipping away. Can he bring balance back to his team before it's too late? |
Zinnen, Linda.
Holding at Third |
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Thirteen-year-old Matt must deal not only with a new home, school and baseball team, but also with the emotions and issues surrounding his older brother, Tom, who has cancer. |
Roberts, Kristi.
My Thirteenth Season |
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Kristi knows she's a great baseball player. But when a coach attacks her just because of her gender, Kristi decides that it's just not worth it. |
Chabon, Michael.
Summerland |
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Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy. |
Ritter, John H.
Over the Wall |
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Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life. |
Jenkins, A.M.
Damage |
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Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special. |
Lee, Marie G.
Necessary Roughness |
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Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles with his twin sister Young to a small town in Minnesota where he must cope not only with racism on the football team, but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father. |
Korman, Gordon.
No More Dead Dogs |
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Eighth-grade football hero Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well. |
Crutcher, Chris.
Whale Talk |
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TJ's an excellent athlete, but he's not into organized sports. Because of his own background, he hates to see injustice in the world. When a school bully starts in on a severely brain-damaged kid, TJ's had enough. He starts a swimming team - in a school without a pool - and teaches the school outcasts not only how to swim, but how to believe in themselves. |
Rottman, S.L.
Slalom |
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In Sandro's beautiful resort town, everyone's rich, beautiful and well-connected. Everyone, that is, except for him. Feeling pressured to join the ski team but unable to afford to, when Sandro's rich and glamorous Italian father moves back to town it looks like everything's falling into place. But looks can be deceiving. |
Coleman, Evelyn.
Born in Sin |
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When fourteen-year-old Keisha gets sent to a summer program for at-risk kids instead of the accelerated pre-med program that she dreams of, she's pretty sure the summer's going to be a bust. She soon realizes, however, that she has a natural talent for swimming. All of a sudden, Keisha's striving for the Olympics, and realizing that it is possible to turn a life around. |
Mackel, Kathy.
MadCat |
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MadCat Campione finds herself dealing with strained friendships, weird parents and serious competition when her fast-pitch softball team finds itself heading to a national competition. |
Gallo, Don. (ed.)
Ultimate Sports: short stories by outstanding writers for young adults |
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Sixteen short stories by such acclaimed authors as Robert Lipsyte and Chris Crutcher. |
Connelly, Neil.
St. Michael's Scales |
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Keenan's twin brother died as a baby, and Keenan's pretty sure that he's supposed to die on his sixteenth birthday. When he joins the wrestling team, however, he learns that maybe he should keep living after all. |
List created by Karen, August 2005.
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