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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the idol business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting long hair, and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar, the...
3) Kneel
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inspiring tale of how a coach with a grand vision and even bigger heart plucked his players out of jail and off the farm and made them believe they were champions as they returned Valdosta to its rightful place as one of the most storied programs in high school football.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Corporate sponsorships, nationally televised games, minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites -- for players, parents and coaches, high school football has never been bigger. But is enough being done to ensure players' safety as the intensity of the sport grows? In Football High, FRONTLINE investigates the new face of high school football. FRONTLINE centers its investigation in Arkansas, where two players collapsed from heatstroke last year while...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Star soccer player Peyton Rios has an offer from her first-choice college-- until she confronts her boyfriend about performance enhancing drugs, and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Now her knee-- and maybe her dream of going pro-- is shattered. With her future on the line, Peyton goes to stay with her uncle in a small Tennessee town to focus on her recovery. When she meet Owen Law she doesn't trust him-- she senses that Owen is hiding...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
8) Mainely fear
Author
Series
Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
""I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it." This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her girls' ice hockey team is cut for budget reasons, Michigan tries out for the boys' team, and earns a place on the starting lineup. But when she bests her teammates with her skills and her refusal to back down, hazing crosses the line into assault."--
11) Coach Carter
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The Revenant (R) (2015) (157 min.): Inspired by legendary explorer Hugh Glass's expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, this film re-imagines a portion of his journey. After being brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team, he endures unimaginable grief and betrayal as he struggles to survive. Guided by sheer will...
13) Perfect
Author
Series
Back of the net volume 2
Publisher
Claw, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
112 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Enzo's drive to be perfect is often seen by others as pushy, arrogant, and self-centered. Between his intense practice routine and his pappa drilling him, Enzo feels the constant pressure to overperform. When he misses a penalty kick in an important game, the team loses. Enzo decides to run away. He ends up face to face with the dangers of street life. Will he find his way back home and to his team now that he's facing a less than perfect life? Aligned...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When you live in a dying mill town, the only way to move up in the world is to move out. In Ampipe, Pennsylvania, their high school football coach is fighting to parlay a winning team into a big-time position--away from the town he despises.
15) Overcomer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
High school basketball coach John Harrison receives unfortunate news that will change his life. The largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down, forcing many families to leave in search of other job opportunities. John and his family are faced with an uncertain future, and his dreams of winning the state basketball championship are in jeopardy. He agrees to coach the cross-country team where he meets a runner who is on her journey of discovery....
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father figure for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand united as a team. In this uplifting underdog story, the Abilene Eagles will once again soar in an incredible comeback that will be forever...
17) Boys of fall
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the fall high school football season in towns across the United States as well as the students and features interviews from professional and retired football players and coaches describing their own experiences as high school players.
18) Get on up
Author
Series
Back of the net volume 4
Publisher
Claw, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"After passing out during a game, Manny discovers that he has lupus and the diagnosis causes him to question everything in his life, from playing soccer to his faith"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.
20) Size me up
Author
Series
Back of the net volume 5
Publisher
Claw, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After a dangerous encounter with some bullies, Ben dedicates himself to applying for college programs in an attempt to get away from the violence and the feel safe at home again"--Provided by publisher.
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