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21) Tryout trouble
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"Katie Flanagan is a star striker on Peabody's soccer team. Her strength is in her legs! When she tries out for the basketball team, she finds that her upper body is not as strong. Then Katie is bullied by another girl for her performance. Can Katie balance her strengths and weaknesses to find success? And are good teams made of only the best players?" --
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In life as in sports, it's how you play the game that matters
You don't have to be a star athlete to take away valuable lessons from the world of sports, whether it's learning how to get along with others, to never give up, or to be gracious in victory and defeat. In this companion volume to his New York Times bestseller, The Games Do Count, Brian Kilmeade reveals personal stories of the defining sports moments in the lives of athletes, CEOs, actors,...
25) The Big Cheese
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big Cheese needs to discover that some things are better than being the best?"--
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Amazing true stories offer an engaging way of teaching perseverance to kids. Is perseverance fortitude, as shown by Anthony Robles, a wrestler with one leg who didn't lose a single match? Maybe perseverance means the sort of toughness demonstrated by Gertrude Ederle, who swam across the English Channel when people thought only a man could accomplish such a feat. These and other stories teach kids the meaning and power of perseverance. The Count on...
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Comeback kids volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
29) Soccer surprise
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Alex has just moved and joined a new soccer team, where she is expected to play a different position; when her error leads to the team's first loss she has to learn to put aside her pride and put the team first.
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Winning season volume 1
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Viking
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the middle school football team, using determination, speed, and smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.
32) Willy the scrub
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Scrub series volume 1
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Darby Creek Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Willy and his friends have just started 5th grade and they want to be part of the 'in' crowd, the jocks. The fall football season leaves Willy a benchwarmer, or scrub, but he goes out for wrestling in the winter and things begin to change.
33) Throwing stones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing, he ventures into journalism and begins to understand the meaning of sportsmanship.
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