| The Perfect Shot Author: Alphin, Elaine Call Number: YA ALPHIN Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served. Check the catalog |
| The Moves Make the Man Author: Brooks, Bruce Call Number: YA BROOKS A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship. Check the catalog |
| Whale Talk Author: Crutcher, Chris Call Number: YA CRUTCHER Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. Check the catalog |
| On the Devil’s Court Author: Deuker, Carl Call Number: YA DEUKER Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball. Check the catalog |
| Slam Author: Hornby, Nick Call Number: YA HORNBY At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. Check the catalog |
| Out of Order Author: Jenkins, A.M. Call Number: YA JENKINS Sophomore Colt Trammel loves baseball and his girlfriend Grace, but he hates the rest of high school and maintains a tough facade to hide his feelings of inferiority. Check the catalog |
| Home of the Braves Author: Klass, David Call Number: YA KLASS Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date. Check the catalog |
| The Contender Author: Lipsyte, Robert Call Number: YA LIPSYTE A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard, but that you don't know anything until you try. Check the catalog |
| Dairy Queen Author: Murdock, Catherine Call Number: YA MURDOCK 2009 Young Reader’s Choice Award Nominee. 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. Check the catalog |
| The Off Season Author: Murdock, Catherine Call Number: YA MURDOCK Sequel to: Dairy Queen High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations. Check the catalog |
| Game Author: Myers, Walter Dean Call Number: YA MYERS If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new white student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him. Check the catalog |
| Slam! Author: Myers, Walter Dean Call Number: YA MYERS 1997 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner. Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. Check the catalog |
| Ball Don’t Lie Author: Peña, Matt de la Call Number: YA PEÑA Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers, including his own past, that threaten his dream. Check the catalog |
| The Boy Who Saved Baseball Author: Ritter, John Call Number: YA RITTER The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato. Check the catalog |
| Saturday Night Dirt Author: Weaver, Will Call Number: YA WEAVER Series: MOTOR Novels In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track. Check the catalog |
| Striking Out Author: Weaver, Will Call Number: YA WEAVER Series: Billy Baggs; Book 1 Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball. Check the catalog |
