Sports Books for Teen Readers
Bennett, James
Squared Circle
Sonny Youngblood plays basketball, and faces some hard truths about college sports.Plunking Reggie Jackson
Coley Burke is a high school baseball star being courted by the majors.
Blue Star Rapture
Basketball players at a summer camp learn how they can be used by scouts.
Bloor, Edward
Tangerine
A great book about soccer and secrets.
Brooks, Bruce
The Moves Make the Man
Basketball, race and friendship all come into play in this great novel.
Carter, Alden
Bull Catcher
Two friends love baseball, but only one of them has the potential to turn pro.
Cochran, Thomas
Roughnecks
Travis Cody plays football in the heart of Louisiana, where football is everything.
Crutcher, Chris
Whale Talk
Can a swim team of misfits come together to challenge the sports royalty of high school?
Athletic Shorts
A collection of short stories form a master of sports writing.
Deuker, Carl
Carl Deuker’s books are full of action and great sports themes.
Draper, Sharon
Tears of a Tiger
A high school basketball player tries to deal with aftermath of his drunk driving.
Dygard, Thomas
Thomas Dygard writes lots of quick and easy books about sports.
Gallo, Donald, ed.
Ultimate Sports
16 short stories by great writers for teens.
Johnson, Scott
Safe at Second
An accident might be stopping Todd Bannister’s baseball career cold.
Johnston, Tim
Never so Green
A deformed hand has kept Tex away from sports, but he discovers how much he loves baseball.
Karr, Kathleen
The Boxer
15-year old Johnny is a boxer in New York in 1885.
Klass, David
Danger Zone
Basketball, racism, and international terrorism are all ingredients in this book about a team playing in an international tournament.
Home of the Braves
Another book about soccer and secrets.
Lee, Marie
Necessary Roughness
Chan Jung Kim was a popular soccer player in California, but when his family moves to Minnesota, he has to become the only Korean football player in an all-white school
Rottman, S.L.
Slalom
A fast paced novel about a born skier who could be undone by anger.
Wallace, Rich
Shots on Goal
Barry Austin is in the middle of a winning season, but working as a team can be tough when two friends are after the same girl.
Biographies and journalistic accounts of athletes and sports can be compelling fast reads. This isn’t boring history, it’s action packed sports!
Armstrong, Lance
It’s Not About the Bike (Biography)
If you wear a LIVESTRONG bracelet, read the biography by the cyclist and cancer survivor.
Cox, Lynne
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Biography)
Becoming the youngest person to swim the English Channel at age 15, Lynne Cox kept setting amazing goals for herself as an athlete.
Damon, Johnny
Idiot: Beating the Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life (Biography)
No Red Sox fan needs an introduction for this book!
Frey, Darcy
The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (PB-YA NF FRE)
Darcy Frey follows the lives of four outstanding basketball players from a high school in Coney Island. All of dreams of playing pro, the name you’ll recognize: Stephon Marbury.
Halberstam, David
Best American Sports Writing of the Century (796 BES)
Essays and stories on sports collected from magazines including Sports Illustrated and The New Yorker.
Hillenbrand, Laura
Seabiscuit (798.4 HIL)
Horse-athletes and jockey-athletes have to work together to accomplish much on the racetrack. Seabiscuit the horse and Red Pollard the jockey accomplished alot!
Krakauer, Jon
Into Thin Air (796.522 KRA)
The harrowing account of a group of people attempting to summit Mt. Everest in May, 1996 is gripping and terrifying.
O’Nan, Stewart
Faithful: Two Die-Hard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (796.357 ONA)
A collection of emails between the writers Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King during the 2004 Red Sox season. Relive the highs and lows with famous writers!
Ryan, Joan
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes (796.44 RYA)
A tough look at the competitive world of women’s figure skating and gymnastics, where being young and thin is your ticket in.
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