Backfield boys by Feinstein, John 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017)

BTSB #: 328148 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.6 MG+RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 840

Genres: Sports Multicultural

Subjects: Football - Fiction Racism - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: When best friends Tom and Jason leave New York City for an elite, sports-focused boarding school in Virginia to play football, they find some coaches and teammates to be steeped in racism.

Backfield boys : a football mystery in black and white by Feinstein, John 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04065 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Sports Multicultural

Subjects: Football - Fiction Racism - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: When best friends Tom and Jason leave New York City for an elite, sports-focused boarding school in Virginia to play football, they find some coaches and teammates to be steeped in racism.

Buzz kill by Fantaskey, Beth 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

BTSB #: 321978 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6 MG+RC: 6.4 9-12

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Murder - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Mystery fiction

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Millie joins forces with her classmate, gorgeous but mysterious Chase Colton, to try to uncover who murdered head football coach "Hollerin' Hank" Killdare--and why.

Coach Hyatt is a riot! [My weird school daze Volume: #4]by Gutman, Dan 

BTSB Prebound(HarperTrophy, 2009)

BTSB #: 408499 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.4 LG RC: 2.8 3-5 Lexile: 530 F&P: O

Genres: Sports Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Football - Fiction School stories Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: A new football coach arrives at school and, with help from an unexpected new team member, the Moose win a game.

Ghost [Track Volume: bk. 1]by Reynolds, Jason 

Paperback(Atheneum Books For Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 748669 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 730

Genres:

Subjects: Running - Fiction Track and field - Fiction Self-realization - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction

Summary: Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential.

Ghost [Track Volume: bk. 1]by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books For Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 748675 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730 F&P: Z

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Running - Fiction Track and field - Fiction Self-realization - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction

Summary: Book 1--Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential.

Ghost by Reynolds, Jason 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2017)

BTSB #: P03995 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Sports

Subjects: Track and field athletes - Psychology - Fiction Running - Fiction Track and field - Fiction Self-realization - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction

Summary: Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential.

Lone stars by Lupica, Mike 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 590871 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 840

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Football - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction Brain - Concussion - Fiction Texas - Fiction

Summary: When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.

Patina [Track Volume: bk. 2]by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017)

BTSB #: 748789 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.4 6-8 Lexile: 710 F&P: Y

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Running - Fiction Track and field - Fiction Self-realization - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: Book 2--Although Patina is the only "newbie" girl on the Defenders track team, she can flash past anyone in the eight-hundred meter. But no amount of speed seems to be able to help her outrun the demons that plague her.

Soar by Bauer, Joan 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2016)

BTSB #: 097239 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.6 MG RC: 3.1 6-8 Lexile: 510

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Heart - Transplantation - Fiction Baseball - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction Teamwork (Sports) - Fiction Adoption - Fiction

Summary: Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.

Soccer sensation [Impact books. Jake Maddox sports story]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2021)

BTSB #: 596146 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 650 F&P: Q

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Soccer - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction

Summary: Cameron Jones plays soccer not because he loves it, but because his dad believes that one day the game will help him earn a college scholarship. When his father's job transfer takes him from the big city to a small-town team, Cameron thinks it might be his chance to take a step back from soccer.

Turnover by Lupica, Mike 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 590731 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 750

Genres: Sports Family Life

Subjects: Basketball - Fiction Coaches (Athletics) - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Scandals - Fiction

Summary: When a young basketball star decides to research his grandfather--and coach--for a school project, he uncovers a decades-old scandal that changes everything he thought he knew about his grandfather.