Sports 2023

Sports Book Options

By Definition: Sports books are narratives or nonfiction with a focus on athletics. 

Inaugural Ballers
by Maraniss 

This is an inspirational, true story of the birth of women’s Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women’s basketball on the map. 

Dinged
by Greenwald

Caleb Springer is the star freshman quarterback on the high school football team. His dad was an NFL superstar and is now the town celebrity. College scouts are already snooping around Caleb, and his future seems set. But just as Caleb's glory days begin, his dad starts to change. He's forgetting things and getting angry at random times. 

Takedown
by Shovan

Mikayla is a wrestler; when you grow up in a house full of brothers who wrestle, it's inevitable. Some people object to having a girl on the team. But that's not stopping Mikayla. Lev is determined to make it to the state championships this year. He's used to training with his two buddies as the Fearsome Threesome; but at the beginning of sixth grade, he's paired with a new partner--a girl. This better not get in the way of his goal.

Sidetracked
by Asher

If middle school were a race, Joseph Friedman wouldn’t even be in last place—he’d be on the sidelines. With an overactive mind and phobias of everything from hard-boiled eggs to gargoyles, he struggles to understand his classes, let alone his fellow classmates. So he spends most of his time avoiding school bully Charlie Kastner and hiding out in the Resource Room, a safe place for misfit kids like him.

Ten Thousand Tries
by Makechnie 

Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni is determined to channel his hero, soccer superstar Lionel Messi, and become captain of his soccer team and master of his eighth-grade universe...especially since his home universe is spiraling out of orbit. Off the field, Golden’s dad, once a pro soccer player himself, is now battling ALS, a disease that attacks his muscles, leaving him less and less physically able to control his body every day.