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Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Sporting stories
The Crossover:
12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan have basketball in their blood. They’re kings of the court, star players for their school team. Their father used to be a champion player and they each want nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. Both on and off the court, there is conflict and hardship which will test Josh’s bond with his brother. In this heartfelt novel in verse, the boys find that life doesn’t come with a play-book and it's not all about winning.
Booked:
Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, football, family, love, and friendship take centre stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents’ break-up, stand up to bullies, and impress the girl of his dreams. These challenges – which seem even harder than scoring a tie-breaking, game-winning goal – change his life, as well as his best friend’s.
Rebound:
It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he's packed off to stay with his grandparents for the summer. There his cousin Roxie introduces him to a whole new world: basketball. A legend on the courts is born. But can Charlie resist when trouble comes knocking once again?
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Furia
(Paperback)
Yamile Saied Mendez
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R292
R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of
the 2021 Pura Belpre Young Adult Author Medal One of BuzzFeed's
Must-Read YA Books of 2020 A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan *
Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library "An engrossing
#OwnVoices novel." --PopSugar "This book will set your dreams on
fire . . . It's fabulous." -- Reese Witherspoon A powerful
contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect
Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who
must put everything on the line--even her blooming love story--to
follow her dreams. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a
double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her
mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's
shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On
the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When
her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets
the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her
wildest dreams, she'd get an athletic scholarship to a North
American university. But the path ahead isn't easy. Her parents
don't know about her passion. They wouldn't allow a girl to play
futbol--and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the
boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become
an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team
Juventus. Camila doesn't have time to be distracted by her feelings
for him. Things aren't the same as when he left: she has her own
passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her
life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets
and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and
ambition of a girl like her. Filled with authentic details and the
textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance,
and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl's
journey to make her life her own.
Winner of the Pura Belpre Medal! Little Lobo returns to share his
love of food and wrestling in !Vamos! Let's Go Eat, a
paper-over-board picture book follow-up to !Vamos! Let's Go to the
Market from New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpre
Award-winning author-illustrator Raul the Third. Little Lobo is
excited to take in a show with wrestling star El Toro in his
bustling border town! After getting lunch orders from the luchador
and his friends to help prepare for the event, Little Lobo takes
readers on a tour of food trucks that sell his favorite foods, like
quesadillas with red peppers and Mexican-Korean tacos. Peppered
with easy-to-remember Spanish vocabulary and packed with fun
details and things to see, this glorious celebration of food is
sure to leave every reader hungry for lunch!
A ride in the countryside spirals out of control for Meg and Merlin
in this dramatic new addition to Tanya Landman's lovable
horse-riding series. Meg and her new friend Sam Houseman meet up to
take their horses out on a hack, but after a lovely day in the
countryside, Meg gets lost while making her way home. Then things
take a dangerous turn when Merlin gets spooked and takes off,
galloping straight towards a main road ... Can Meg get him back
under control before disaster strikes?
It's an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is
the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award-winner
and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare. After
barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive,
Quinn's first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she
wants is to be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past
won't leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online
conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never
happened. It's a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there's
nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth-not even on
her own campus or in her own dorm room. So when a murderous clown
attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father
in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts
alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back
into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the
record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth
gets lost in the lies, that's when people start to die. Clown in a
Cornfield was 2020's Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior
Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo
Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series.
Get ready for Book 5 in the ongoing chapter book series based on
Minecraft! The adventures continue in the fifth official Minecraft
chapter book based on the most popular video games of all time.
When Po, Morgan, and three of their fellow Minecraft players track
the Evoker King to his home in the heart of a perilous dungeon,
they have to gear up for an epic fantasy quest filled with danger,
dragons, and hostile mobs. Meanwhile, in the real world, the school
play seems to be full of its own traps and troubles. Are Po and his
friends doomed in both worlds?! (c) 2020 Mojang AB and Mojang
Synergies AB. MINECRAFT and MOJANG are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Mojang Synergies AB.
"Packed full of emotion. . . . An influential read with a powerful
message."-Booklist Whether goose or swan, I have wings. And I'll
fly. Gus's life is about one thing-swimming. And he knows that the
only coach in town who can get him to the Olympics is Coach Marks.
So it seems like a simple plan: convince Coach Marks to train him,
and everything from there on in is just hard work. Gus has never
been afraid of hard work. But there are a few complications. For
one thing, Coach Marks was Danny's coach. Danny, Gus's brother,
committed suicide after failing to make the national swimming
team-a big step on the way to the Olympics. And for another, Gus
and Danny didn't exactly get along; Gus never liked living in
Danny's shadow. A shadow that has grown even bigger since his
death. In this powerful novel about the punishing and the healing
nature of sports, Gus's rage threatens to swallow him at every
turn. He's angry at his brother, his mother, his coach . . . even
himself. But as he works toward his goal and through his feelings,
Gus does everything he can to channel this burning intensity into
excelling at the sport that he and Danny both loved, and finds
solace in the same place he must face his demons: in the water. In
addition to Gus's incredible narrative, there are four pieces of
original art featured in Geese Are Never Swans. The art was curated
by TaskForce, a creative agency that collaborates with the most
influential nonprofits, brands, and people taking on the most
pressing challenges facing our nation and our world. TaskForce
builds capacity and community for those shaping a more empathetic
society through public opinion and policy. The artists'
interpretations of their work are included in the book.
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