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1) Creed III
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After dominating the boxing world, and with his career and family thriving, Adonis Creed finds himself challenged in the ring by his childhood friend, Damian, a former boxing prodigy fresh out of prison. But this will be more than just a fight. Adonis must put his future on the line to battle a man with nothing to lose.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in a new Who HQ NOW format for trending topics, this Who Was? biography details NBA superstar Kobe Bryant's legendary career and the impact of his legacy on the sports world and beyond.
Kobe Bryant was just an eighteen-year-old high-school basketball player when he decided to enter the National Basketball Association's draft. Though he was the thirteenth overall pick by the Charlotte Hornets, he would never play a single game...
Kobe Bryant was just an eighteen-year-old high-school basketball player when he decided to enter the National Basketball Association's draft. Though he was the thirteenth overall pick by the Charlotte Hornets, he would never play a single game...
3) Champions
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Highlights some of the greatest upsets and underdogs in sports history, from Jim Abbott's no-hitter to Kerri Strug's gold medal-winning vault, in a work that includes an audio CD containing excerpts of the actual broadcasts.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball, he moves to North Carolina from his native, war-torn South Sudan. Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins.
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Looks at some of the stranger sports played around the world, including skyaking, slamball, shovel racing, street luging, and underwater wrestling.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the former Stanford University sailing coach, the first person sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit, about the sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising, and about the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect"--
16) Parkour
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Starting the basketball season after their football championship, Ben McBain and his crew are challenged by newcomer Chase Braggs, whose point guard abilities outstrip Ben's and who attracts Lily's attention while Ben is busy practicing.
18) Heliskiing
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 20th century, this feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold follows Charles Daniels, who, to overcome his family’s disgrace and his mental health struggles, took to the water in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy.
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