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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
Author
Series
Riley Covington thrillers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Riley Covington is still reeling from his father’s brutal murder when he learns he’s been traded. Meanwhile, the counterterrorism division has detected a plot to detonate electromagnetic pulse bombs that could leave the U.S. without power, communications, and transportation—right down to dropping planes out of the sky. CTD scrambles to stop the attacks, but they run out of time. Amid the fallout, Riley, Scott, Skeeter, and CTD must regroup to...
3) Hit count
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything is OK, in spite of the pain, the pounding, the dizziness, and the confusion.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A classic novel about a week inside a pro football team On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent's classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the pro game, chronicling eight days in the life of Phil Elliott, an aging receiver for the Texas team. Running on a mixture of painkillers and cortisone as he tries to keep his fading...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lonely widower Cal Sawyer struggles to raise his teenage daughter Rachel while keeping his business afloat in the failing small town of Athens City, Alabama, and serving as assistant coach of the high school football team which is playing its last season before the school is consolidated.
Author
Series
Riley Covington thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Linebacker Riley Covington is just starting mini-camp for the Colorado Mustangs when a wave of terrorist attacks begins to occur across the country. To draw out his attackers, Riely goes on the defensive, but can the terrorists be stopped before they reach their ultimate goal?
7) Left out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
All Landon Dorch has ever wanted is to be like everyone else. His deafness and the way he talks have been obstacles all his life. But now he finally sees his chance to fit in. Bigger and taller than any other seventh grader in his new school, Landon plans to use his size to his advantage and join the school's football team. But the same speech problems and the cochlear implants that help him hear continue to haunt him. Just when it looks like Landon...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
The Messina Spartans football team has come home to bury their old coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. As they wait for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they must decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake - or hate him.
9) El Paso
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Armando Salguera is a tight end at El Dorado High School and is aiming to make his NFL aspiration come true. But his dream is threatened when--after 15 years of silence--his estranged father, Oswaldo, sends word that he will be coming across the border, back into Armando's life. Could this mean that Armando's dreams of making the pros are over?
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Corey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles's body lags behind his ambitions, and recruiters tell him...
11) The late hit
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In small-town football players push through injuries. But when a concussion rattles the starting quarterback, should he risk his own safety for the good of the team?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins football team. The kids on the rival team tease him for being a 'butterfingers' who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan up his sleeve to turn Mo's little size into a big win for the Robins"--
14) Outlaws
Author
Language
English
Description
Attorney Madison McCall is dragged into a web of deceit and violence when she agrees to take on the case of Cody Grey, a football player with the Texas Outlaws who is charged with the murder of an IRS agent.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey. Here in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme, she is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall. Like herself, they are orphans -- with whom she forms a friendship and an eventual love triangle that will...
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