Sports

797.3 Ole	Oleksy, Walter. Barefoot Waterskiing. Describes the history, techniques, practice, and competition related to the sport of barefoot waterskiing.	Barefoot Waterskiing
F Cha	Chabon, Michael. Summerland. The ferishers, little creatures who ensure perfect weather for Summerland, recruit Ethan Feld, one of history's worst baseball players, to help them in their struggle to save Summerland, and ultimately the world, from giants, goblins, and other legendary, terrible creatures.	Baseball
F Deu	Deuker, Carl. Heart of a Campion. (YA) Seth faces a strain on his friendship with Jimmy, who is both a baseball champion and something of an irresponsible fool, when Jimmy is kicked off the team.	Baseball
F Deu	Deuker, Carl. High Heat. (YA) When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.	Baseball
F Deu	Deuker, Carl. Night Hoops. (YA) While trying to prove that he is good enough to play on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.	Baseball
F Deu	Deuker, Carl. On The Devil’s Court.. (YA) Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball.	Baseball
F Deu	Deuker, Carl. Painting the Black.. (YA) When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Ryan Ward doesn't realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle's Crown Hill High.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Abner and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Babe and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Jackie and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Sequel to Honus and Me.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Jim and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Mickey and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. When Joe travels back to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Satch and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.	Baseball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. Shoeless Joe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.	Baseball
F Her	Herzig, Alison Cragin. The Boonsville Bombers. When her older brother and his friends won't let her play on their baseball team, Emma comes up with a plan to convince them to change their minds.	Baseball
F Koe	Koertge, Ron. Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.	Baseball
F Joh	Johnston, Tim. Never So Green. (YA) In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.	Baseball
F Mur	Murphy, Claire Rudolf . Free Radical. (YA) In Fairbanks, Alaska, in the middle of the summer Little League baseball season, fifteen-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 anti-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.	Baseball
F Nay	Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Boys In Control. Once again the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back. By the same author: Alice the Brave.	Baseball
F Pec	Peck, Robert Newton. Extra Innings. After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.	Baseball
F Pow	Powell, Randy. Dean Duffy. Eighteen-year-old Dean, a former high school baseball star whose future has been ruined by a batting slump and a bad arm, is offered a college baseball scholarship and finds himself uncertain of whether to take it.	Baseball
F Rit	Ritter, John H. Choosing Up Sides. In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.	Baseball
F Rit	Ritter, John H. Over the Wall. Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.	Baseball
F Rit	Ritter, John H. The Boy Who Saved Baseball. The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.	Baseball
F Rit	Ritter, John H. Under the Baseball Moon. Andy and Glory, two fifteen-year-olds from Ocean Beach, California, pursue their respective dreams of becoming a famous musician and a professional softball player.	Baseball
T Tes	Testa, Maria. Becoming Joe MiMaggio. Joseph Paul grows up following the career of baseball great Joe DiMaggio and learning the rules of the game from his grandfather and dreaming of becoming a famous baseball player himself, and somehow healing his grandfather's broken heart.	Baseball
F Tun	Tunis, John Roberts The Kid From Tomkinsville. As the newest addition to the Brooklyn Dodgers, young Roy Tucker’s pitching helps pull the team out of a slump; but, when a freak accident ends his career as a pitcher, he must try to find another place for himself on the team.	Baseball
F Wal	Wallace, Rich. Southpaw. After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying to cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.	Baseball
F Wea	Weaver, Will. Farm Team. Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in Northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.	Baseball
F Wea	Weaver, Will. Striking Out. With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.	Baseball
F Hir	Hirschfeld, Robert. Wheel Wizards. Angry and unhappy because he is now in a wheelchair and apparently no longer able to play basketball, twelve-year-old Seth is amazed to discover wheelchair basketball and finds that his life is not over after all.	Basketball
F Chr	Christopher, Matt. Center Court Sting. Daren's tendency to blame everyone but himself when anything goes wrong causes problems with his best friend, with a young neighbor who idolizes him, and with one of his basketball teammates. By the same author: The Counterfeit Tackle, Prime Time Pitcher.	Basketball
F Deu	Deuker, Carl. On the Devil’s Court. Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team at his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball. By the same author: Painting The Black.	Basketball
F Dyg	Dygard, Thomas J. Rebound Caper. High-school basketball player Gary Whipple, known for his mischievous pranks, creates a sensation when he switches from the boys' team to the girls' team. By the same author: Tournament Upstart, The Rebounder.	Basketball
F Fei	Feinstein, John. Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery. After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.	Basketball
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. The Million Dollar Shot. Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals.	Basketball
F Hal	Halecroft, David. Benched. Woody and his friend, Bannister, work hard to make the eight-grade basketball team, but then they allow basketball to come before everything else- including schoolwork.	Basketball
F Hal	Hallowell, Tommy. Jester In The Backcourt. Nick has to learn to control his antics on the basketball court if the Alden Panthers are going to win the championship. By the same author: Last Chance Quarterback, Shot From Midfield.	Basketball
F Kla	Klass, David. Danger Zone. When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics. By the same author: Home of the Braves.	Basketball
F Lup	Lupica, Mike. Travel Team. After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.	Basketball
F Mye	Myers, Walter Dean. The Outside Shot. Recruited by a small midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in college sports. By the same author: Hoops: A Novel. Slam!.	Basketball
F Ral	Rallison, Janette. Life Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws. High school freshmen Josie and Cami try to remain best friends as they compete for basketball awards and boys. By the same author: Playing the Field.	Basketball
F Sot	Soto, Gary. Taking Sides. Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.	Basketball
F Swe	Sweeney, Joyce. Players. Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.	Basketball
796.83 Sch	Schulke, Flip. Muhammad Ali: The Birth of a Legend. A collection of photos from Muhammad Ali’s early years, after his Olympic gold in 1960 and before his first world heavyweight championship.	Boxing
921 De L	Quinn, Rob. Oscar De La Hoya. A biography of Oscar De La Hoya, discussing his youth in the barrios of East Los Angeles, his Olympic and professional boxing careers, and the stumbling blocks he has encountered on his path to success.	Boxing
F Lip	Lipsyte, Robert. The Contender. Harlem high school drop out escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don’t know anything until you try. By the same author: Warrior Angel.	Boxing
F Pow	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.	Flag Football
F Blo	Bloor, Edward. Tangerine. (YA) Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.	Football
F Kor	Korman, Gordon. No More Dead Dogs. Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.	Football
F Lee	Lee, Marie G. Necessary Roughness. Sixteen-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.	Football
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. The Million Dollar Putt. Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.	Golf
F Bro	Brooks, Bruce. Prince. When Prince, the Wolfbay Wings' only black hockey player, is aggressively recruited to play for the basketball team, he is torn between the sport he and his grandfather know and love and the sport that everyone else thinks he ought to play.	Hockey
F Gut	Gutman, Dan. The Million Dollar Goal. Twins Dawn and Dusk learn to admire their crochety old grandmother when they teach her to play hockey after she wins the chance to shoot a goal for one million dollars, but when she dies before the contest, the twins must decide who is going to take her place.	Hockey
F Cla	Clark, Catherine. Frozen Rodeo. High-school junior Peggy Fleming Farrell finds herself without a car, working at the Gas 'n Git, and fantasizing about a boyfriend during the hot summer her distracted parents are expecting yet another baby to join their ice-skating family.	Ice Skating
F Dod	Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates. A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.	Ice Skating
796.52 Voe	Voeller, Edward A. Sport Climbing. Describes the history, equipment, competitions, and practice of sport climbing, both in climbing gyms and outdoors on rock.	Rock Climbing
F Knu	Knuidson, R. Rozanne. Zan Hagen’s Marathon. After setting a record at the Virginia Cross-Country Championship, Zan sets her goals for an Olympic gold medal in the first women’s marathon in Olympic history set to take place in Los Angeles in 1984.	Running
F Voi	Voigt, Cynthia. The Runner. As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team gradually helps him see the value of giving and receiving.	Running
921 Haw	Hawk, T. Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder. An autobiography in which professional skateboarder Tony Hawk discusses his early interest in boarding and the years he spent pursing the sport until it once again became popular, and shares stories about his personal life.	Skateboard
F Man	Mantell, Paul. Skateboard Renegade. Wanting to fit in with his skateboarding friends, Zach is tempted to adopt a new image of spiked bleached hair and a pierced ear.	Skateboard
F Mac	MacLean, John. When the Mountain Sings. Thirteen-year-old competitive skier Sam experiences the excitement and intensity of preparing for his first championship race.	Skiing
798.8 You	Young, Ian. The Iditarod: Story of the Last Great Race. Recalls the history of the Iditarod dog sled race, including some of its greatest mushers and dogs, and explains how teams and volunteers prepare for and run this famous Alaskan race.	Sled Dog Racing
796.6 Gla	Glaser, Jason. Snow Mountain Biking. Describes the history, equipment, and contemporary practice of snow mountain biking.	Snow Mountain Biking
F Avi	Avi. S.O.R. Losers. Each member of the South Orange River seventh-grade soccer team has qualities of excellence, but not on the soccer field.	Soccer
F Cos	Costello, Emily. On the Sidelines. Fiona Fagan is a good soccer player, who could be great if she didn't have asthma and allergies in her way.  Fiona's parents decide that it is just too dangerous to her health to keep playing.  But with her teammates' encouragement, she decides to play against her parents' wishes.  Now Fiona is in big trouble and may never be able to play soccer again!  Is there any way that the Stars can help their friend stay on the team?	Soccer
F Mur	Murrow , Liza Ketchum. Twelve Days in August: A Novel. Twelve days in August change a sixteen-year-old soccer player's perceptions of himself, his family, girls, and gays.	Soccer
F Swa	Swan, Bill. Corner Kick. Michael Strike learns a lesson friendship when fellow soccer player Miriah befriends Zahir, an immigrant from the Middle East, whom Michael sees as a rival until he finds out that Zahir is an excellent chess player.	Soccer
F Lyn	Lynch, Chris. Slot Machine. When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul’s Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong. By the same author: Iceman, Shadow Boxer.	Sports
F Wal	Wallace, Rich. Losing Is Not an Option. Eleven episodes in the life of a young man, from sneaking into his tenth football game in row with his best friend in sixth grade to running his last high school race, the Pennsylvania state championships.	Sports
F Yep	Yep, Lawrence. Sea Glass. A Chinese-American boy whose father wants him to be good in sports finally asserts his right to be himself.	Sports
SC Ran	Random House Book of Sports Stories Presents a collect of sports stories by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, and John Updike.	Sports
F Tom	Tomlinson, Theresa. Riding The Waves. In an English seaside town, Matt befriends an elderly woman who helps him fulfill his dream of surfing and learn to accept his having been adopted.	Surfing
F Win	Winton, Tim. Lockie Leonard, Sumbuster. When Lockie Leonard wipes out on a huge wave, he is thrown into a friendship with the weird, but extremely intelligent "Metal Head," Geoff "Egg" Eggleston, who joins Lockie in his crusade to clean up the pollution in his coastal Australian town's harbor.	Surfing
F Cru	Crutcher, Chris. 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. By the same author: Stotan!	Swimming
F Mil	Miller, Mary Jane. Going The Distance. Loren wants to stay in one place, make friends, and be on a swimming team, but her parents are artists who keep moving every few months.	Swimming
797.3 Hay	Hayhurst, Chris. Wakeboarding!: Throw a Tantrum. Describes the history, equipment, techniques, and safety measures of wakeboarding, which is a combination of waterskiing and snowboarding.	Wakeboarding
F Hir	Hirschfeld, Robert. Wheel Wizards. Angry and unhappy because he is now in a wheelchair and apparently no longer able to play basketball, twelve-year-old Seth is amazed to discover wheelchair basketball and finds that his life is not over after all.	Wheelchair Basketball
F Bau	Bauer, Marion Dane. Face to Face. Picked on at school by bullies, thirteen-year-old Michael confronts his fears during a trip to Colorado to see his father, who works as a whitewater rafting guide and whom Michael has not seen in eight years.	Whitewater Rafting