Football

Football Genius

By Tim Green

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Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
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Cover-Up

By John Feinstein

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Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.
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Troy High

By Shana Norris

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Best friends Cassie and Greg get caught in the middle of a decades-old football rivalry between their high school teams, the Spartans and the Trojans, in this novel loosely based on Homer's classic tale, The Iliad.
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Pop

By Gordon Korman

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Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
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No More Dead Dogs

By Gordon Korman

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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.
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Dairy Queen

By Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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Crackback

By John Coy

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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.
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Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories

By Chris Crutcher

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Six stories featuring athletes in tales of love, death, bigotry, heroism, and coming of age.
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Knute Rockne: All American

By Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan plays George Gipp, the Fighting Irish's first All-American, whose final words, "win just one for the Gipper," became one of the most famous sayings associated with Reagan. Pat O'Brien stars as coach Knute Rockne.

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Out of the Pocket

By Bill Konigsberg

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As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
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