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6) Leaving
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bailey Flanagan leaves Bloomington after winning an audition for the ensemble of a Broadway musical in New York City. In order to be closer to his mother in jail, Cody takes a coaching job in a small community outside Indianapolis. But new friends, distance, and circumstances expose cracks in his relationship with Bailey.
10) Dogwood Hill
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When former pro football quarterback Aidan Mitchell comes to Chesapeake Shore to coach the high school team, Liz March, who has sworn off men, finds herself falling for him until a devastating secret from his past threatens to destroy everything.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She is not one to judge others--no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haney's candid account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Haney's most formidable coaching challenge would be solving the riddle of Tiger's personality, and the tactics he had developed to keep people from getting too close.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this level 1-2 beginning reader, Fly Guy joins Buzz's football team, despite Coach's misgivings, and hits the field for a special, secret play.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
17) Ghost
Author
Series
Track volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The Pittsburgh Steelers rank as one of the NFL's truly legendary franchises, and this book, written from the fan's perspective, provides readers with unique stories about the players and coaches who took part in many of the greatest and most euphoric victories in the team's history. Among the games covered are Franco Harris's "Immaculate Reception" that beat the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs, the four Super Bowl and AFC Championship Game victories...
19) Hoops
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games...
20) The legends club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Documents the fierce 1980s rivalry among the coaching legends behind the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and North Carolina State, detailing the covert recruiting wars that shaped each team and the national pressure that complicated their leadership methods.