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1) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world—and how you too can overcome challenges in your life.
Simone Biles’ entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a field trip in her hometown
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up.
Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend
Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such ...
Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science. A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes--from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the lives of women athletes who have left their mark on their respective sports and the athletic field including Margaret Ives Abbott, Wilma Rudolph, Kristi Yamaguchi, Venus and Serena Williams, and Simone Biles.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A year ago Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he makes his living playing golf in paradise, and everything should be perfect--but Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an impostor who doesn't deserve his success. Then Travis blows a tournament and is suspended for assaulting another player. His family and friends are shocked, and Travis realizes he needs to...
9) The runner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast and Dancing with the Stars favorite Laurie Hernandez shares her story in her own words in this debut book for fans of all ages. At sixteen years old, Laurie Hernandez has already made many of her dreams come true--and yet it's only the beginning for this highly accomplished athlete. A Latina Jersey girl, Laurie saw her life take a dramatic turn last summer when she was chosen to be a part of the 2016 US Olympic gymnastics...
11) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Gravity 'Doomsday' Delgado is good at breaking things. Maybe she learned it from her broken home. But since she started boxing with a legendary coach at a gym in Brooklyn, Gravity is finding her talent for breaking things has an upside. Lately, she's been breaking records, breaking her competitors, and breaking down the walls inside her. Boxing is taking her places, and if she just stays focused, she knows she'll have a shot at the Olympics. Life...
12) Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding Ultra is Rich Roll's incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever.
One cool evening in October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight at the time and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he could see where his current sedentary lifestyle was taking him. Most of us look
...13) Running for my life: one lost boy's journey from the killing fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This is a story about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike sponsored athlete on the US Olympic Team. He shares his commitment to keep moving forward and find God in each step.
14) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
Author
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's experiences with the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, whose techniques allow them to run long distances with ease, and describes his training for a fifty-mile race with the tribe and a number of ultramarathoners.
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In his narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. It's why, when Sera's best friend reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer from her first-choice college, senior year starts off exactly as planned. But when Peyton uncovers her boyfriend's dark secret, she confronts him and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Peyton's knee and maybe her dream of going pro is shattered. Everyone is talking: Was she pushed, or did she fall?
18) We are family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season"--
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This sports book, memoir, and manifesto from a Super Bowl Champion elucidates racism in the United States.
Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable.
Bennett adds his unmistakable voice to discussions of racism...
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the law that opened the door for greater opportunities for girls and women, with this refreshed edition of the nonfiction illustrated middle grade book about an important victory in the fight for equality.
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