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1) Lebron James
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It takes truly special athletes to be Superstars, whether they're catching touchdowns, scoring goals, or slamming home acrobatic dunks. The Sports Superstars series, takes a look at some of these legendary athletes, their origin stories, and how they have influenced their sport.
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Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
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ESPN personality (Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends among the legends and tell you why some have claimed their spot in the top 100 of all time. -- Amazon.com....
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"Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age, almost the same size, and came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents, and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations...
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Tacky the penguin books volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tacky and his fellow penguins on Team Nice Icy Land train hard for the Winter Games, but Tacky's antics make their chances of winning a medal seem slim.
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"Brooks Robinson is one of baseball's most transcendent and revered players. He won a record sixteen straight Gold Gloves at third base, led one of the best teams of the era, and is often cited as the greatest fielder in baseball history. Credited with almost single-handedly winning the 1970 World Series, this MVP was immortalized in a Normal Rockwell painting. A wholesome player and role model, Brooks honored the game of baseball not only with his...
7) Rez ball
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
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Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another.
Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics.
Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
Coronado is Maggie’s horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood.
Sky is Becky’s horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood.
Only James Patterson could bring you such...
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2017.
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"With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions"--
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Beartown volume 3
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2022.
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English
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It starts with a storm, a death, and two funerals on the same day. One person's life is being celebrated by all of Beartown. One person's life is being forgotten. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. They can see how much Beartown has changed. There is a sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive...
11) Booked
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.--
12) The soccer star
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Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Come along with Billie as she sets out to prove that girls can play soccer too.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The fascinating story of baseball's most legendary "Iron Men," Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played. When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he'd beat the historic record of playing 2,130 games in a rowset by Lou Gehrig, the fabled "Iron Horse" of the New York Yankees.When Ripken beat that record by 502...
14) Champions
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Focus Features, Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
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Gus's life is about one thing-swimming. He is determined to make it to the Olympics and he knows that the only coach in town who can get him there is Coach Marks. So it seems like a simple plan: convince Coach Marks to train him. Everything from there on in is just hard work and 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 older brother, committed suicide after...
16) Soccer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Introduces young readers to the basic rules of soccer and what gear is needed to play.
17) Tom Brady
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It takes truly special athletes to be Superstars, whether they're catching touchdowns, scoring goals, or slamming home acrobatic dunks. The Sports Superstars series, takes a look at some of these legendary athletes, their origin stories, and how they have influenced their sport.
18) Deandre Hopkins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It takes truly special athletes to be Superstars, whether they're catching touchdowns, scoring goals, or slamming home acrobatic dunks. The Sports Superstars series, takes a look at some of these legendary athletes, their origin stories, and how they have influenced their sport.
19) Lionel Messi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It takes truly special athletes to be Superstars, whether they're catching touchdowns, scoring goals, or slamming home acrobatic dunks. The Sports Superstars series, takes a look at some of these legendary athletes, their origin stories, and how they have influenced their sport.
20) Joel Embiid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It takes truly special athletes to be Superstars, whether they're catching touchdowns, scoring goals, or slamming home acrobatic dunks. The Sports Superstars series, takes a look at some of these legendary athletes, their origin stories, and how they have influenced their sport.
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