Sports - Fiction

The following books can be found in the Fiction collection, shelved by the first three letters of the author's last name, e.g., F BAR .
 

Bennett, James W.  SQUARED CIRCLE.

A basketball star finds his first year of college a struggle and a challenge.

Cheripko, Jan.  IMITATE THE TIGER.

An alcoholic high school football player faces the collapse of his world.

Connelly, Neil.  ST. MICHAEL'S SCALES.

Keegan is about to celebrate his 16th birthday witout his twin who died at birth.  After a dream, he realizes that it was he who was meant to have died; not his twin.  Keegan begins to plan his suicide but soon finds solace in wrestling and begins to change his ideas about life and family.

Crutcher, Chris.  CRAZY HORSE ELECTRIC GAME.

A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.

_________ .  IRON MAN.

While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

_________ .  RUNNING LOOSE.

Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.

_________ .  STOTAN!

A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.

__________ .  WHALE TALK.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

Deuker, Carl.  HEART OF A CHAMPION.

A fast-paced sports novel that explores a boy's rite of  passage when he learns that athletes aren't perfect.

_________ .  NIGHT HOOPS.

This story combines the complexities of life and basketball by describing a young man learning to face life's challenges both on and off the court.

_________ .  PAINTING THE BLACK.

When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Remy Ward doesn't realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle's Crown Hill High.

Dygard, Thomas J.  INFIELD HIT.

Hal joins the school baseball team but hides the fact that his father is a former major league player.

___________ .  QUARTERBACK WALK ON.

When the fourth-string quarterback for a Texas college team suddenly finds himself  next Saturday's starter, he has a plan for winning.

___________ .  REBOUNDER.

A tall transfer student is persuaded to return to the basketball court after an accident.

Grisham, John.  Bleachers.

When his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his former teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings about the man.  

Hayes, Daniel.  NO EFFECT.

A teenager becomes a fanatical wrestler on the high school team.

Kinsella, W. P.  SHOELESS JOE

A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.

Klass, David.  DANGER ZONE.

 Basketball, racism, and international terrorism combine in this story of an international high school basketball player's confrontation with fear.

Lee, Marie G.  NECESSARY ROUGHNESS.

16-year-old Korean-American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father.

Malmud, Bernard.  THE NATURAL.

The story of Roy Hobbs, an athlete born with rare and wondrous gifts, who is robbed of his prime playing years by a youthful indiscretion that nearly costs him his life.

Murphy, Claire Rudolf.  FREE RADICAL.

In Fairbanks, AK, in the middle of summer baseball season, 15 year old Luke is stunned when his mother confesses that she is wanted by the FBI for her role in the death of a student during an anit-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.

Myers, Walter Dean.  OUTSIDE SHOT.

In this sequel to HOOPS, Lonnie Jackson leaves Harlem on a sports scholarship, but learns that street smarts are not a preparation for demanding classes.

Powell, Randy.  THREE CLAMS AND AN OYSTER.

During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.

Sweeney, Joyce.  PLAYERS.

A fast-paced story about a young man who dreams of a city basketball championship while facitng typical teenage problems in the shape of a "villianous" new team member.

Voigt, Cynthia.  RUNNER.

The prequel to DICEY'S SONG and HOMECOMING, in which 18-year-old Samuel "Bullett" Tillerman begins to question his racial prejudices when a black student joins the school track team.

Voigt, Cynthia.  TELL ME IF THE LOVERS ARE LOSERS.

Ann, Niki and Hildy are hovering on the brink of womanhood.  The three become inseparable, until something happens that changes their lives forever.

Wallace, Rich.  PLAYING WITHOUT THE BALL.

Wallace reveals the unsettled life of a teenage basketball player and how his life turns around when the church league lets him play basketball and a girl he likes gives him a second chance.

Zusak, Markus.  FIGHTING RUBEN WOLFE.

Two teenage brothers from a working-class family decide to do their part by signing on with a lowlife boxing promoter who stages semi-legal fights between untrained youths who are only paid if they win.  Ultimately, the brothers are forced to face each other in the ring.

 

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