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Series
My weird school daze volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A new football coach arrives at school and, with help from an unexpected new team member, the Moose win a game.
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Series
Language
English
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After twenty-one years, John and Abby Reynolds are back together and feeling like newlyweds. Together they are convinced they can handle the issues of their past, the questions from their children, and event he high-school politics that drain the joy from Johns' coaching career. But then tragedy strikes.
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Series
Go girl! (Feiwel and Friends) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Gemma is convinced that her gymnastics coach is punishing her for accidentally kicking him in the face when he yells at her and gives her extra strength exercises, but she is determined to improve.
4) The turnover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
5) Coaches
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains how coaches teach kids skills they need to play sports. Includes a picture glossary"--
6) Leaving
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When offered the chance to audition for a Broadway musical in New York City. Bailey Flanigan is unable to pass up what she considers an opportunity of a lifetime. However, her boyfriend Cody is staying behind in Indiana to be close to his mother. Now in a big city all by herself, Bailey must embark on the latest chapter in her young life.
7) Soar
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
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.
8) Mia
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mia has grown up playing ice hockey with her three older brothers and has the skills she needs to become a star hockey player. But she's tired of skating in her brothers' shadows and has decided to pursue her passion for figure skating instead. With the help of a new coach, Mia finds out whether she has what it takes to grow and compete as a figure skater.
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English
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For Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke University men's basketball team, certain words have special importance and force. Coach K uses them every day to energize, motivate, and teach his players how to be winners on the court and in every aspect of their lives. Now, in BEYOND BASKETBALL, he offers 40 short, hard-hitting essays-each centered on an important keyword and illustrated with anecdotes from his personal experiences-that educate and inspire....
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Language
English
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Mike Krzyzewski's eight trips to the Final Four and two national championships with Duke University make him one of the most successful college basketball coaches of all time. With Donald T. Phillips, the best-selling author of Lincoln on Leadership, Krzyzewski explains the techniques that have made his program so successful and offers advice on using those same strategies to excel in both your business and personal lives. Coach K's blueprint for...
11) Soccer stand-off
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Eighth-grader Ethan Isaac is looking forward to the soccer season, but he gets a shock when he finds out that their new coach is Ms. Brezinka, his tough seventh grade science teacher--some of the players quit the team, but Ethan does not have that option, and he soon learns that Ms. Brezinka is as demanding a soccer coach as she was a teacher.
12) The sixth man
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"New kid Max Bellotti has the talent to lead The Lions basketball team straight to victory, but Max he also has a secret that could disrupt their winning streak once it's exposed"--
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Language
English
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"Roughly 45 million children each year play youth sports in the United States. A majority are coached by parent volunteers with good intentions, but little training. This lack of training and overemphasis on winning often results in poor outcomes, namely stress and frustration, for coaches and players alike. This can so discourage young athletes that they walk away from sports altogether. With this new guide for amateur parent coaches, Jennifer Etnier,...
16) The walk on
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
After moving to a new town his freshman year in high school, Alex Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but must deal with idea of not playing for two years since the first-string quarterback is not only a local hero, he is also son of the corrupt head coach.
17) From the rough
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Language
English
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Description
The remarkable true story of how one woman changed the world of sports forever. When Catana Starks (Academy-Award Nominee Taraji P. Henson) became the first African-American woman to coach an all-men's team at the collegiate level she expected it to be tough but she had no idea just how challenging it would be. With no scholarships to offer and only one US student willing to join the team, she reached out across the globe to assemble a ragtag group...
18) Loving
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final chapter in the Bailey Flanigan Series, Bailey is planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles. But doubts are wracking Bailey's mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon? Or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
19) McFarland, USA
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Feinstein returns to the subjects of his first 10 books (from his celebrated sagas of college basketball seasons to insider tell-alls on pro tennis, golf, and the Army-Navy football rivalry). He recounts the most revealing encounters he's had as a sportswriter.
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