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Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen "true tales from the childhoods of famous athletes, from Babe Ruth (so incorrigible that his parents put him in reform school at age 7) to Muhammad Ali (who learned to fight at age 12 after a thief stole his bicycle)"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having dropped a pass and made his football team miss having an undefeated season, thirteen-year-old Keith fears that he will continue to make bad mistakes and wonders if he should continue playing football.
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sam is proud that his touchdown in the final play of a game left his football team undefeated, but when a videorecording of the game reveals that the touchdown was scored illegally, he and the other Cowboys must decide whether to reveal the truth. Includes facts about a similar situation faced by Cornell University's team after a game with Dartmouth in 1940.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tyler's hope that his soccer team will be undefeated is dashed when his friend Zack, the team's star midfielder, and two more of the Cougars' best players accept an offer to play for an elite travel team.
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jared Richards is undefeated in baseball games--video games, anyway. But when he loses a bet to his best friend, Jared is forced to get off the couch and step onto the field for his school's baseball team tryouts. Despite the fact that he's never even held a baseball before, Jared ends up being pretty impressive as a pitcher--until the line between video games and reality begins to blur. Can Jared sort out the glitch in his brain before he blows the...
Author
Series
The knights' tales volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of Sir Gawain, the only undefeated knight in King Arthur's court, who eventually learns the value of friendship, courtliness, and courtesy after a challenge from the Green Knight.
9) Hot shot
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Julian Pryce was star center on an undefeated basketball team before moving to a new town, where he quickly gets on the wrong side of the starting center, whose father happens to be their coach.
Author
Series
Publisher
12 Story Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Takes a close look at 12 of the world s most legendary athletes. Meet the world s most elite athletes, from sensational swimmers Michael Phelps and Diana Nyad to lightning-fast Usain Bolt. Discover how sports teams became truly legendary, including college and professional squads.
11) Hoops
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games...