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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Football season becomes a time of realization that life's most important victories are won off the field. A star running back with much to learn, a younger player with much to give, and a woman with a heart for underprivileged kids--thrown together i
2) Overkill
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a riveting thriller where ethics and privilege are put on trial-and the stakes for a former football player and an ambitious state prosecutor are life-and-death--
Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for some time—not since their volatile marriage imploded—so he’s shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been...
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Wolf's murdered father has left her in charge of a multi-billion-dollar empire--a newspaper, a football team, a holding company . . . and a family that makes Succession's Roys and Yellowstone's Duttons seem tame. The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head-thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
5) 80 for Brady
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl in Houston, four female fans become determined to go to the game and meet quarterback Tom Brady, which proves a more memorable experience than they anticipated after the Patriots fall behind by four touchdowns.
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 43
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker who's earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing...
8) Slugfest
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka Slugfest, in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
10) Ribsy
Author
Series
Henry Huggins volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary gives Henry's dog, Ribsy, the center stage in this dog's-eye view of the adventure of a lifetime. Good ol' Ribsy's ever-curious mind has always gotten him into scrapes, but this time he may have gone too far. After a comical turn of events, Ribsy finds himself in the wrong station wagon with the wrong children. Ribsy will do anything to find Henry, but there's plenty of excitement to be had along...
11) Juror # 3
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
12) Learning
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cody Coleman and Bailey Flanigan are separated by physical distance but they are also faced with emotional distance. Bailey grows closer to her dream of becoming a dancer and actress in New York while Cody coaches high school football. Neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one another. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
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