Rich Wallace
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 7
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Free throw specialist Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 2
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when the point guard accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the Hornets lose their quarterback for the season and the replacement lacks the talent to take charge, the coach picks a solid receiver as emergency quarterback.
5) Fast company
Author
Series
Winning season volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As the summer of 1969 turns to fall in their New Jersey town, twelve-year-old Brody plays football in his first year at junior high while his older brother's protest of the war in Vietnam causes tension with their father.
7) Wicked cruel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Three separate short stories, all set in the same New Hampshire town, explore the truth behind local urban legends as, for example, sixth-grader Jordan begins seeing a boy from his school who died of injuries after being bullied.
Author
Publisher
Triangle Interactive, LLC
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March.Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs—and perhaps their lives—by organizing a teachers-only
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