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Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

Talent and long practice improves Mel's value on the basketball's team starting lineup but how can he surmount the prejudice of a white teammate who conspires to keep him in the background.

2) Catch that pass!

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

Everyone knows Jim will be the star linebacker on the team if he can only conquer his fear of being tackled, but it takes a boy in a wheelchair to teach him that kind of courage.

3) The kid who only hit homers

Author

Series

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

Sylvester Coddmyer III, a poor but enthusiastic baseball player, becomes a phenomenal hitter after he meets a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth who offers to help him improve his batting skills.

4) Ice magic

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

The twins toy hockey game seems to be magic as it plays games identical to the real ones before they even happen.

5) Soccer halfback

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.

6) Dirt bike racer

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

"Twelve-year old Ron Baker finds a mini bike while scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider and racer, restores the bike and enters competitions"--Provided by publisher.

7) Dirt bike runaway

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and good.

8) The great quarterback switch

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

Twelve-year-old Michael, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, uses mental telepathy to communicate football plays to his quarterback twin brother Tom, then suddenly finds himself on the field in his brother's place.

9) The hockey machine

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

Abducted by a "fan" and forced to become a member of a professional junior hockey team, thirteen-year-old star center, Steve Crandall quickly realizes that he must play not only to win but to survive.

10) Return of the home run kid

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

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.

11) Baseball flyhawk

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

12) Shoot for the hoop

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

Forced to referee rather than play basketball after he has been diagnosed as being diabetic, Rusty believes he will never play again until a new man in town organizes a team and coaches him.

13) The comeback challenge

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Formats

Description

Mark, center for his middle school's soccer team the Scorpions, must cope with his parents' divorce and a teammate who holds a grudge against him.

14) The team that couldn't lose

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

A young, inexperienced football team discovers that its beginner's luck is due to a series of mysterious but successful plays anonymously sent to the coach.

15) Center court sting

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

Daren's tendency to blame everyone but himself when anything goes wrong causes problems with his best friend, with a young neighbor who idolizes him, and with one of his basketball teammates.

16) Soccer scoop

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

Description

"When a cartoon appears in the school newspaper making fun of his tendancy to talk a lot, Mac, the goalie for the Cougars soccer team, is determined to find out who is responsible"--Provided by publisher.

17) Long-arm quarterback

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Twelve-year-old Cap Wadell wants to play on a "real" football team, but his middle school in a small Texas town does not have enough players until his grandfather revives interest in the game of six-man football"--Provided by publisher.

18) Mountain bike mania

Author

Mantell, Paul

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

Sixth-grader Will is looking for an after-school activity, but when he joins the mountain biking club, his old friendships and values are challenged.

19) Snowboard showdown

Author

Mantell, Paul

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

Rivalry flares between twelve-year-old Freddie and his fourteen-year-old brother Dondi, both on and off the snowboarding slopes, nearly leading to disaster.

20) Power pitcher

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Series

Language

English

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