Matt Christopher
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
3) Tight end
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.
5) Spike it!
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Unhappy at having to share space and family with her new stepsister Michaela when her father remarries, thirteen-year-old Jamie is further dismayed when Michaela joins her volleyball team and becomes a star player.
Author
Series
Home run kid series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III, star of The Kid Who Only Hit Homers and Return of the Home Run Kid, is about to face his biggest challenge yet. His second season with the Hooper Redbirds is over and he's looking forward to the start of summer baseball, when he sprains his left ankle in a freak accident. How will he hit homers when every swing means pain?
9) Hot Shot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Julian Pryce was once the star center of the Tornadoes. But when he joins a new team after his family moves, he suddenly finds himself the star benchwarmer. It turns out the Warriors already have a starting center, Paul Boyd, who has no intention of sharing the court with Julian. The coach is no help, either, for one simple reason: Paul is his son! Now Julian may have to take drastic measures if he's going to get back into the game. . . but is he...
Author
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising discovery about his own adoption.
12) Johnny Long Legs
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Even though he is the tallest member of the basketball team, a young boy finds he is far from being the best player.
19) Soccer halfback
Author
Pub. Date
[1978]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.