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2) Undefeated
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follows a high school football team from inner-city Memphis, Tennessee, and the coach who hopes to turn the team around.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nora Mackenzie's entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn't end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it's come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he's holding a grudge. Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge. If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his heart,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There is nobody like Patrick Mahomes. In three seasons, he has won a Super Bowl and competed in another, earned the titles of First Team All-Pro, NFL Offensive Player of the Year, and league MVP, and turned the Kansas City Chiefs from famed playoff failures into the most successful team in the NFL. With his unique and groundbreaking playing style, and winning personality both on and off the field, Mahomes has become a truly transcendent quarterback...
5) 80 for Brady
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Four lifelong friends who became huge fans of New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady fifteen years ago, when one of them was undergoing chemotherapy treatment, decide to go to the Super Bowl to see their hero play.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Competition can be fierce on the football field. From NFL matchups to college clashes, teams and players give their all, and passionate fans support them every step of the way. Learn the history behind some of football's biggest rivalries and decide whocomes out on top.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches are inagreement on his future. Colin feels differently. This touching graphic memoir explores the story of how a young change maker learned to find himself and never compromise. How the right decision is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. But when her former best friend teases her for not having had a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she's been secretly seeing someone. Brett Wells has it all. As captain of the football team and one of the most popular guys in his school, he should have no problem finding someone to date, but he's always been more focused on his future than who to bring to prom. When he...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can't imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper. And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into getting every little detail out of Alfie. They banter...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I'm a big girl, "plus-sized," whatever. I'm sick of hearing about it, especially since my doctor diagnosed me with PCOS. So when Mean Girl Merritt shot her mouth off about how fat people should just lose weight, I couldn't take it anymore. And now I've got a huge problem. To prove curvy girls like me can get happily-ever-afters too, I have to get our school's quarterback, Beckett Langley, to take me to homecoming. And he doesn't know I even exist....
12) Simply the best
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Mazur has worked as the personal assistant to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization for two years, and she's had enough. It's a thankless job, and she refuses to feel bad about quitting. So she's rather surprised when Aiden Graves, the Wall of Winnipeg, shows up at her door begging her to come back. She's even more shocked when he explains that her job description as personal assistant is about to take "personal" to a...
14) Slugfest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending all year playing on the local high school's JV sports teams, middle schooler and athletic superstar Arnie "Yash" Yashenko is shocked to learn that he's failed PE due to numerous unexcused absences. And because he won't graduate eighth grade or be eligible to try out for high school sports until he attends summer school, he reluctantly joins the Physical Education Equivalency class known as Slugfest. His schoolmates include perpetually...
Author
Publisher
Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Coach Joe Kennedy started offering a prayer on the field after each high school football game, the school district tried to shut him down, launching a seven-year legal battle that went to the Supreme Court-twice. In June 2022, he won. Average Joe is the story of an unlikely champion of religious freedom. A former atheist, Kennedy never imagined he'd lead the defense of Americans' First Amendment rights. He certainly didn't intend to be at odds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone Impritn
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Robinson learns about wheelchair rugby during Super Sports Saturday, he can't wait to try it. But then his family moves to Alabama to help take care of his grandma after she gets hurt. Robinson's in luck, though. His dad tells him about an organization called the Shore that has a wheelchair rugby team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Football is the most popular sport in the United States. Athletes throughout history have set incredible records and used their skills to overcome challenges on the field. Discover facts about the NFL's biggest winners, record-setting players, and more!
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While most athletes excel in just one sport, Jim Thorpe was different. Born in Oklahoma in 1887, he played both professional football and baseball, and ran track and field. Jim was not only a sports icon but also a trailblazer. Raised as part of the Sacand Fox tribal nation, he was the first Native American person to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. And although his personal life was not always as successful as his career, Jim remains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Skol Vikings! The Minnesota Vikings have a long history in the NFL. In this hi-lo title, young readers will learn about the story and tradition of the Minnesota Vikings. An opening narrative draws readers in with a memorable moment in team history. Special features highlight notable players, the team's stadium, and important achievements. A two-page spread closes the book with important facts about the team, a list of team records, and a timeline...
Author
Publisher
Whitman Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A lively and profusely illustrated history of the Golden Gophers from their first informal game against Hamline University at the Minneapolis Fairgrounds in 1882 to the eve of their return to outdoor football on the U of M campus in 2009 after playing 26 years downtown in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
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