in the Juvenile Fiction collection...
Full Court Fever
Author: Bowen, Fred
Call Number: J BOWEN
With help from a new student and inspiration from an old magazine article, the players on Michael's seventh-grade basketball team hope to overcome their shortness and win their game against the eighth graders.
Summerland
Author: Chabon, Michael
Call Number: J CHABON
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.
Miracle at the Plate
Author: Christopher, Matt
Call Number: J CHRISTO
Skeeter is the best batter in the league but seems to be all thumbs when fielding or trying to make friends.
Free Baseball
Author: Corbett, Sue
Call Number: J CORBETT
Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.
Play On
Author: Diersch, Sandra
Call Number: J DIERSCH
The performance of Alecia's soccer team suffers greatly because its members are too distracted by other interests.
Owen Foote, Soccer Star
Author: Greene, Stephanie
Call Number: J GREENE
Series: Owen Foote
When eight-year-old Owen and his best friend Joseph join a neighborhood soccer league, they not only face a test of their game skills but also of their friendship.
Honus and Me
Author: Gutman, Dan
Call Number: J GUTMAN
Series: A Baseball Card Adventure
Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.
Million Dollar Shot
Author: Gutman, Dan
Call Number: J GUTMAN
Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals.
Team Picture
Author: Hughes, Dean
Call Number J HUGHES
Trying to hold onto the newfound stability of his life in a foster home, thirteen-year-old David worries about the growing moodiness of his guardian Paul and the fluctuating fortunes of his Pony League baseball team.
Run for Your Life
Author: Levy, Marilyn
Call Number: J LEVY
While living in a housing project in Oakland, CA, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Author: Lord, Bette Bao
Call Number: J LORD
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
BMX Bully
Author: Maddox, Jake
Call Number: J MADDOX
Eleven-year-old Matt wants to make the Evergreen Racing Team but his chances are seriously threatened when a new boy moves to town and resorts to cheating in order to win.
The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Call Number: J MYERS
Series: My Name is America
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
On Guard
Author: Napoli, Donna Jo
Call Number: J NAPOLI
Excited by a fencing demonstration he happens to see, fourth grader Mikey starts taking lessons in hopes that the sport will make him special like his brother and sisters.
Skinnybones
Author: Park, Barbara
Call Number: J PARK
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
Finding Buck McHenry
Author: Slote, Alfred
Call Number: J SLOTE
Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock
Author: Spinelli, Jerry
Call Number: J SPINELL
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
Go, Team, Go!
Author: Tunis, John
Call Number: J TUNIS
When one player from the overconfident team, the previous year's champions, is expelled for gambling and the other four are penalized for breaking training, they angrily quit the basketball varsity and leave the inferior B team defending the school's record.
Bat 6
Author: Wolff, Virginia
Call Number: J WOLFF
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
...and in the J Audio collection...
Heart of a Champion
Author: Deuker, Carl
Call Number: AUDIO J DEUKER
Seth faces a strain on his friendship with Jimmy, who is both a baseball champion and something of an irresponsible fool, when Jimmy is kicked off the team.
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