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141) Last man out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
142) Touchdown for Tommy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
A young boy worries about making the football team and convincing his foster parents to adopt him.
143) Touchdown turmoil
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When wide receiver Ethan drops a touchdown pass and his team loses the game, he starts to doubt his own abilities, but as the next game approaches he realizes that he has to do what his father and coaches are telling him to do--stop obsessing about failure and get back to playing confident football.
144) 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.
145) Home field advantage
Author
Language
English
Description
Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it's an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose. The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the changes...
146) Quarterback Rush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Otters are absolutely awesome in practice. Everyone's talented and determined, and their new quarterback, Aaron Corbin, throws bullets... so why are the Otters struggling to win games? Steve Michaels, one of the team's receivers, notices that Aaron seems to be afraid of getting hit. With a little help from his teammates, Steve goes to great lengths to toughen up Aaron only to discover that toughness isn't the quarterback's actual problem...
147) The green revolution
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With Notre Dame in an uproar over the university's disastrous football season, Roger Knight, professor of Catholic Studies, finds himself a marked man as he and his P.I. brother Philip launch separate investigations to put a stop to a campus conspiracy.
150) Long-arm quarterback
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year old Cap Wadell wants to play on a "real" football team, but his middle school in a small Texas town does not have enough players- until his grandfather revives interest in the game of six-man football"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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. Manny's starting his first football season with the Hudson City Hornets, and he's determined to get in the game and not warm the bench. Problem is, Manny's not a big guy, and when he tries to tackle the offense, he's the one...
152) Crackerjack halfback
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
What worried Freddie was that he knew he was afraid of tackling... The Sandpipers were fighting hard to finish the season near the top of the league. Freddie's cousin Mert, who played for the Cardinals, the first-place team, never let Freddie forget that he would have to do a lot of tackling if the Sandpipers were to keep Mert's team from rolling up a big score.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
AD 320L
Language
English
Description
The countdown to bedtime has begun. If you want to snooze, you can't lose in this football/bedtime mash-up! It's Sunday night, football night, and the countdown clock to bedtime is winding down. Will the Dream Team be able to get to bed on time? First there's the pre-game warm-up in the bath, then it's time to get suited up in pajamas, and don't forget your fancy footwork. After some interference from the family dog and a full-counter sweep of the...
154) 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
Series
Chet Gecko mystery volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
To save his own skin, private eye Chet Gecko sets out to solve the mystery of Emerson Hicky Elementary School's disappearing football players.
156) Muckers
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town"-- Provided by publisher.
157) Away running
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this novel for teens, Matt and Free meet in Paris where they both play American football on a team in a poverty-stricken suburb where racial tension affects the team.
158) Showdown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the state title on the line, a cross-town football rivalry starts heating up. Two third-string sophomores are just along for the ride until their teammates are suspended. Will they be able to step up and win?"--
159) Yard war
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.
160) Fighting tackle
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
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