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Author
Series
Tacky the penguin books volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Tacky and his fellow penguins on Team Nice Icy Land train hard for the Winter Games, but Tacky's antics make their chances of winning a medal seem slim.
3) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Pub. Date
2012, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Accompanying Emily Elizabeth during Field Day at school, Clifford attempts to participate in the sack race, jump hurdles, and help win a game of tug-of-war before the coach explains that he is too big to play.
5) Hat trick
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets his picture in the paper for scoring three goals in a soccer game, Stookie tries to emulate his feat.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
10) Football queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kylie Jean Carter has been waiting for three years to become a Little Dazzler--a junior cheerleader for the high school's Dancing Dazzlers--so she can cheer for her brother's high school football team.
11) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team -- a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training....
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 19
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After trying unsuccessfully to play a variety of school sports, Heidi turns to the Book of Spells for help.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
16) Safe at home
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books/Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.
17) The raft
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reluctuant Nicky spends a wonderful summer with Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her home and watching the animals along the banks.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bob and his crew travel to Bobblesberg to help build the facilities for the Winter Games in which Wendy plans to compete, Bob puts Scoop in charge of a project, but his poor leadership weakens the group's ability to work as a team.
19) Soccer shocker!
Author
Series
Project Droid volume 2
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his robotic cousin, Java, joins his soccer team, Logan is replaced as team MVP since Java is a great scorer who doesn't pass the ball, but when the robot gets wet, Logan and his teammates must come together to score the winning goal.
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