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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they lose their coach, Scott and his teammates decide that he should try his hand at coaching, but it takes teamwork and the efforts of a player they call "Brain" to produce a winning season. Includes historical facts about player coaches.
2) Real hoops
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ben and Logan go to a recreation center to practice basketball with more experienced players in hopes of getting on the freshman team, they meet Hud, who could be the perfect point guard if he is willing to listen to the coach.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When the coach's son, shawn o'brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old ben mcbain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grader Ellie is a veteran on her volleyball team, but this year she is frustrated because she is having trouble with her footwork, and she hopes that getting involved with coaching the younger girls in the newly organized after-school group at theBoys and Girls Club will help her work through her problems--besides, it is fun and she was instrumental in setting it up.
Author
Series
Gollywhopper Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zane thinks about little but football until after his second concussion, when his parents say he must take a year off, so when he gets a chance to compete in the Gollywhopper Games he is excited about applying many of the skills that help him excel on the football field to a different kind of competition.
7) Crackback
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
8) Kid Coach
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After turning his couch-potato father into a wrestling champion, Kid Coach discovers that he left out the most important lesson--the importance of being a good sport.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.
10) Play makers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Starting the basketball season after an incredible football championship win, Ben McBain and his crew, including the talented Shawn O'Brien, are challenged by newcomer Chase Braggs, whose point guard abilities outstrip Ben's and who attracts Lily's attention while Ben is busy practicing.
11) Battle creek
Author
Language
English
Description
Gil Davison, long-time coach of an amateur baseball team, decides this is the year to clinch the national championship, despite the personal conflicts he is having with his son and his father, and it looks as though his dream may come to pass when a hot rookie hitter, fresh from a stint in prison, joins the team.
12) Longing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Longing, book three in the Bailey Flanigan Series, picks up where Learning ended. After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town...
Author
Series
Miss Malarkey volume 4
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The children on a newly formed soccer team love their coach, Miss Malarky, who doesn't know much about the game except how to make it fun, but the school principal and parents have other ideas.
Author
Series
Clorinda the cow books volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clorinda the cow is a talented baseball player and coach whose dream of playing in the big leagues comes true in an unexpected way.
15) Hot shot
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Julian Pryce was star center on an undefeated basketball team before moving to a new town, where he quickly gets on the wrong side of the starting center, whose father happens to be their coach.
16) The new coach
Author
Series
Gymnasts series volume 18
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Lauren has a new coach and she can't stand him. The problem is everyone else loves him.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach's ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known.
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