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81) Lone stars
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.
82) Backfield boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When best friends Tom and Jason leave New York City for an elite, sports-focused boarding school in Virginia to play football, they find some coaches and teammates to be steeped in racism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Future physician Kate Grable is horrified when her high school's football coach gives team members steroids, but the drugs turn players into zombies and Kate must find an antidote before the flesh-eating monsters get to her or her friends.
86) Second impact
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Jerry Downing, star quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after his drunk driving had serious consequences, Carla Jensen, ace reporter for the school newspaper, invites him to join her in writing a blog, mainly about sports.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start... until she starts seeing the "wrong things." They're just momentary glimpses at first - her front door is red instead of green, there's a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours and Nat knows something isn't right. Then there are the visits from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls "Grandmother," who tells her,...
89) Creature
Author
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
The Tanner family discovers that beneath the perfect facade of the town of Silverdale there is a monstrous evil harbored.
90) Winger
Author
Series
Winger volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.
91) Triple threat
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle loves football almost as much as she loves her father but when she joins the Orville Middle School football team, not all of the boys, or parents, are pleased.
Author
Series
Description
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. Iit's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world- but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes... except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is conspiracy-theory-obsessed. Social media followers eat up her takes on everything from UFOs to holiday overconsumption—yet, she's still not cool enough for the popular kids' table. Which is why Brad abandoned her for the in-crowd...
94) Before the snap
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Once Derrick discovers that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant, rumors swirl around him and he is unable to focus on football or school.
95) Shooting star
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.
96) Odessa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"High school football and mystery overlap as private detective Pete Hamilton is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a student at Permian High School. As Pete digs into the case, he delves deeper into Odessa's underbelly, eventually unearthing connections to the highest levels of Odessa's establishment--both in and out of football. Will the consequences of this case prove too costly for Pete to pursue it? Or will he put his life on the...
97) Muckers
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town"--
98) Two the hard way
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Star high-school quarterback Romeo has everything on the right track until his older brother Kwame gets out of jail, their absentee mother returns to their lives, and Romeo's girlfriend Ngiai wants a serious relationship.
99) Running wild
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
When Coach Wilson and Officer Stowell encourage him to join the high school football team, Pete no longer believes that "nobody does anything for nothing."
100) Shut out
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can.