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Gym Candy

by Carl Deuker

YA F IC Deuker

Groomed by his father to be a starplayer, football is the only thing thathas ever really mattered to Mick J ohn-

son, who works hard for a spot on the varsity teamhis freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge

by using steroids, despite the consequences to hishealth and social life.

Out of the Pocket

by Bill Konigsberg

YA F IC Konigsberg

As Bobby Framingham, quarterback ofhis high school football team, finallyacknowledges to himself that he is gay, events startto spin out of control when his sexual orientation isrevealed in the student newspaper and then in the

local press, and he learns that his father has can-cer.

Rebound

by Bob Krech

YA F IC Krech

Determined to make the varsity basket-

ball team, 17-year-old Ray finds his

efforts to play both hindered and helped

by the atmosphere of racism in his town.

Amazing Grace

by Megan Shull

YA F IC Fehler

Tennis has a new it girl and her name

is Grace Kincaid. The only problem is

that Grace has suddenly realized that

being a teen sensation isnt all its cracked up to be.

With fame and fortune just a backswing away, all

she really wants is to be normal.

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Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip

by J ordan Sonnenblick

YA F IC Sonnenblick

After an injury ends former star pitcher

Peter F riedmans athletic dreams, he

concentrates on photography which

leads him to a new girl friend, new fame as a high

school sports photographer, and a deeper beloved

grandfather who, when he realizes hes senile, gives

Pete all of his professional camera gear.

Pick-Up Game

by Marc Aronson (editor)

YA F IC Pick-up

A series of short stories provides differ-

ent perspective on a game of streetball

played one steamy J uly on the West 4th Street

court in New York City known as The Cage.

Dairy Queen (series)

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

YA F IC Murdock

After spending her summer running the

family farm and training the quarter-

back for her schools rival football team,

sixteen-year-old DJ decides to go out for the sport

herself, not anticipating the reactions of those

around her.

Beanball

by Gene Fehler

YA F IC Fehler

Relates, from different points of view,

events surrounding the critical injury of

a popular and talented high school athlete, Luke

Wizard Wallace, when he is hit in the face with a

fastball.

The Running Dream

by Wendelin Van Draanen

YA F IC Van Draanen

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-

old J essica an amputee, she returns to school

with a prosthetic limb and her track team helps

find a way for her to rekindle her love of running again.

Stupid Fast (series)

by Geoff Herbach

YA F IC Herbach

J ut before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Rein-

stein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him

from small, jumpy, picked on boy to a powerful

athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the cour-

age to confront his familys past and current problems.

Leverage

by J oshua Cohen

YA F IC Cohen

High school sophomore Danny excels at gym-

nastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gym-

nasts, by members of the football team. That is,

until an emotionally and physically scarred new student

joins the football team and forms and unlikely friendship

with Danny.

Stealing Parker

by Miranda Kenneally

YA F IC K enneally

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect

life. Shes on her way to becoming valedictorian

at Hundred Oaks High, shes made the all-star

softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her

mothers scandal rocks their small town and suddenly, no

one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life.

Million Dollar Throw

by Mike Lupica

YA F IC Lupica

Eighth grade star quarterback Nate

Brodies family is feeling the stress of

the troubled economy, and Nate is fran-

tic because his best friend is going blind. When he

gets the chance to compete for a million dollars, he

is nearly overwhelmed with the pressure to succeed.

Shooting Star

by Fredrick McKissack

YA F IC McKissack

J omo Rogers, a naturally talented ath-

lete, starts taking performance-

enhancing drugs in order to become an even better

high school football player, but finds his life spin-

ning out of control as his game improves.

Boy21

by Matthew Quick

YA F IC Quick

Finley, the only white player on hishigh school's varsity basketball team,

lives in a dismal town ruled by the I rish mob. Whenhis coach asks him to mentor a troubled AfricanAmerican transfer student, he finds that they have

a lot in common in spite of their differences.

Last Shot

by J ohn Feinstein

YA F IC Feinstein

Steven is one of two lucky winners of acontest for aspiring journalists. Hi sprize? A trip to New Orleans and apress pass for the Final Four. But thegames going on behind the scenes between thecoaches, the players, the media, the money-men,

and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely com-petitive than those on the court.