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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this young reader's edition, one of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today.
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Series
Chicago Stars volume 9
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Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, the backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a team player, talented sideline coach, occasional male underwear model, and a man with a low tolerance for Divas.
Olivia Shore, international opera superstar, is a driven diva with a passion for perfection, a craving for justice, too many secrets—and a monumental grudge against the egotistical, lowbrow jock she’s been stuck with.
It’s Mozart meets Monday Night...
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Just what Genna Hastings needed, a conceited creep of a new neighbor with rippling muscles, mile-wide shoulders, and a wicked Jack Nicholson smile that could melt stone! It wasnt often that women resisted star quarterback J.J. Hennessy, but he was ready to trade all the cover girls hed dated for the adorable lady next door. With his summer sky eyes and kisses that stole her sanity and her willpower, J.J. was impossibly charismatic, magnificently maleand...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Step into the locker rooms and living rooms of NFL players and their families to see how a close relationship with God guides football's biggest stars. In a behind-the-scenes, off-the-field glimpse into one of America's most beloved sports, Men of Sunday reveals how Sunday's greatest rely on God to face issues such as drug abuse, family crisis, injuries, and temptations resulting from fame and fortune. Compiled from dozens of interviews, Men of Sunday...
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Series
Chicago Stars volume 3
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Description
A temperamental quarterback is given a special "birthday gift" by his teammates--a ravishing young woman. The "birthday gift" is actually a physics teacher who is using the quarterback for her own special project. But before long, this mismatched couple passionately prove that opposites attract.
47) Game changers
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Series
Game changers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In the twelve years since his death from cancer, the legend of Walter Payton has only grown in magnitude. This is the definitive biography of an iconic American sportsman-- and one of the most uniquely complex and enigmatic superstars in the history of American sport.
49) Out of the blue
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The wide receiver for the 2012 Super Bowl-winning New York Giants shares the story of his rise from an undrafted free agent to a record-setting athlete, describing his youth in Paterson, New Jersey, and the values he embraces.
50) Denver Broncos
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn about the key players and big wins that have made the Denver Broncos one of the most exciting and successful teams in the NFL.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is one of the most successful players in NFL history. Chosen by the Indianapolis Colts with the first pick in the 1998 NFL draft, Peyton earned a reputation for being one of the league's smartest quarterbacks. He led the Colts to victory in the 2007 Super Bowl and was named Most Valuable Player of the NFL a record four times. After missing the 2011-2012 season due to an injury, Peyton left Indianapolis to...
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Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how...
54) Unearthly
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Series
Unearthly trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.
55) Final season
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"With two all-star college football players for brothers and a former Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman for a father, it is only natural for sixth-grade quarterback Benjamin Redd to follow in their footsteps. However, after his dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis--connected to all those hard hits and tackles he took on the field--Ben's mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit football. Ben isn't playing just for himself though....
56) Peyton Manning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of the Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Explores the life and career of quarterback Peyton Manning, including his high school and college career, his rise to stardom in the NFL, and his remarkable achievements with the Indianapolis Colts"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
They were America's Team, the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, and Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, the Cowboys rank among the greatest of all NFL dynasties.
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Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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