Sport

TITLE & AUTHOR

Anything To Win

Cam Potter is a high school senior and captain of the football team, When his coach tells him that an athletic scholarship is available at State if he can put on thirty pounds, Cam succumbs to a program of anabolic steroids.

Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories

Six deeply touching stories in which the reader revisits some memorable characters from the author's distinguished novels.

Blue Rapture*

A friend's suicide leads TJ to rethink both his motives and his actions in helping his learning-disabled but athletically gifted friend Tyrone through the college recruitment process.

Brian's Song

Two football players conquer the differences of race, personality and place of birth to support each other.

Bull Catcher*

Freshman Neil "Bull" Larsen has one goal in mind - to play baseball through high school and beyond. However, when he submits his four-year baseball diary as his senior project, Bull re-examines his dreams and makes some surprising discoveries about himself.

Choosing Sides

Jonathan wants to quit the basketball team, but does not want to disappoint his dad.

Danger Zone

KLASS, D

When promoters pick an American High School Dream Team for a tournament in Italy, Jimmy Doyle has to persuade the talented African American inner-city kids who make up most of the team that he deserves the opportunity.

Hard Ball*

Billy Baggs and his rival, King Kenwood, are forced by their high school baseball coach to spend a week together as a consequence of their violent behavior. They find unexpected common ground in this fast-paced Sport novel.

Heart Of A Champion

Best friends, Seth Barham and Jimmy Winter, share a passion for baseball. While Seth struggles to accept his father's death, Jimmy seems destined to become a major league until he embarks on a self-destructive path.

Honus And Me: A Baseball Card Adventure

When Joe Stoshack finds the most valuable baseball card in the world in a pile of garbage, he thinks he has struck it rich. It turns out that the card is worth more than money - it's a ticket to an amazing time-travel adventure to a historic world series game.

Hoops*

A young man with a talent for basketball hopes that his game will be his ticket out of the ghetto.

Imitate The Tiger*

Chris Serbo looks for salvation in football and drinking, but neither will fill the emptiness inside. Not until he finds himself in danger on a lonely road does he come face-to-face with the person he has become.

Ironman

When Bo Brewster's angry outbursts at school cost him a spot on the football team and move him close to expulsion, he finds himself in an anger management group with hard-edged survivors like himself.

Keystone Kids

Legend Of Bagger Vance

In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game - Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen - meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete - a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his mentor and caddie, the mysterious Bagger Vance.

Lessons Of The Game

Moves Make The Man

A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship. Fast action on and off the basketball court.

Natural

The wildly comic and ultimately heartbreaking adventure of Roy Hobbs, the mythical baseball prodigy.

Night Hoops*

Both Nick and Brent, the troubled teen from across the street, make the varsity basketball team and slowly form an uneasy friendship different from anything they've ever known.

Outside Shot*

A Harlem youth on a basketball scholarship finds he is unprepared for the pressures of class, college Sports and love.

Painting The Black

Ryan Ward, just beginning to feel the magic of baseball, is faced with a heartbreaking dilemma when he must choose between his love of the game and his integrity.

Players*

18-year-old Corey suspects his dream of winning the basketball championship is in jeopardy when he discovers the new player will stop at nothing to be the of the team.

Roughnecks

Travis Cody prepares for the final football game of his high school career, a rematch with his school's chief rival. Travis has one chance to make amends for the play that cost his team an undefeated season.

Runner

Bullet Tillerman is a track team who answers to no one. He'd rather be cut from the team than work with the promising new runner, Tamer Shipp. But Bullet finds his own rules are becoming too painful to live by.

Running Loose

Louie Banks takes a stand against the coach when he sets the team up to injure a black player on an opposing team, and learns that you can't be honorable with dishonorable men.

Safe At Second*

Baseball player Todd Bannister, Paulie Lockwood's best friend, has it all until a line drive to his head causes him to lose an eye. Now everything is different, and the two friends must chart a new future for their lives.

Stotan!

High school buddies and members of the swim team Walker, Nortie, Lion and Jeff accept the challenge to participate in Stotan week - a week of rigorous swim training that pushes them beyond physical pain and tests their moral fiber, changing their lives forever.

Striking Out*

Taking Sides*

Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white, suburban neighborhood.

Tangerine

Paul Fisher, who is legally blind, has a passion for soccer and a deep mistrust of his football hero brother, Erik. Why is everyone - except Paul himself - blind to the terrifying truth about Erik?

Ultimate Sports*

The mix of traditional and non-traditional Sports, young male and female protagonists, and serious and comic styles forms an anthology that takes readers right into the heart of Sports action.

When No One Was Looking*

Kathy is a young tennis player with enough drive, attitude and talent to go right to the top. And it seems that everyone around her has a stake in her success. So, when Kathy is presented with an opponent she can't beat, and a tragedy occurs, everyone's motives are questioned. They all want victory badly, but would anyone really kill for it?

Whistling Toilets*

Called in to coach his friend Ginny, a nationally ranked junior tennis, when her game hits a slump, 16-year-old Stan Claxton reevaluates their friendship and his future.