Sports Stories for Teens
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Fiction
- The Game Can't Love You Back by Karole Cozzo, call number: YA FIC COZZO
- Swing by Kwame Alexander, call number: YA FIC ALEXANDER
- Golden Arm by Carl Deuker, call number: YA FIC DEUKER
- Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning, call number: YA FIC HENNING
- Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein, call number: YA FIC FEINSTEIN
- A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White, call number: YA FIC WHITE
- Cold Day in the Sun by Sara Biren, call number: YA FIC BIREN
- Every Reason We Shouldn’t by Sara Fujimura, call number: YA FIC FUJIMURA
- Payback Time by Carl Deuker, call number: YA FIC DEUKER
- Running with Lions by Julian Winters, call number: YA FIC WINTERS
- Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics by John Feinstein, call number: YA FIC FEINSTEIN
- All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani, call number: YA FIC TAMANI
- See No Color by Shannon Gibney, call number: YA FIC GIBNEY
- Game Seven by Paul Volponi, call number: YA FIC VOLPONI
- Swagger by Carl Deuker, call number: YA FIC DEUKER
- After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay, call number: YA FIC RIBAY
- Gravity by Sarah Deming, call number: YA FIC DEMING
- Pinned by Sharon G. Flake, call number: YA FIC FLAKE
- Stealing Home by Becky Wallace, call number: YA FIC WALLACE
- Home and Away by Candice Montgomery, call number: YA FIC MONTGOMERY
- Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open by John Feinstein, call number: YA FIC FEINSTEIN
- Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach, call number: YA FIC HERBACH
- Gut Check by Eric Kester, call number: YA FIC KESTER
- Here to Stay by Sara Farizan, call number: YA FIC FARIZAN
- Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally, call number: YA FIC KENNEALLY
- Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill, call number: YA FIC MORRILL
- Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli, call number: YA FIC IACOPELLI
- Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab, call number: YA FIC JARZAB
- Heronie by Mindy McGinnis, call number: YA FIC MCGINNIS
- The Easy Part of Impossible by Sarah Tomp, call number: YA FIC TOMP
- Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman, call number: YA FIC SILVERMAN
- Hoops by Walter Dean Myers, call number: YA FIC MYERS
- Michigan Vs. The Boys by Carrie S. Allen, call number: YA FIC ALLEN
Graphic Novels/Comics
- A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong, call number: YA GN MAP
- The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin, call number: YA GN AVANT-GUARDS
- Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu, call number: YA GN CHECK
- Fence by C.S. Pacat, call number: YA GN FENCE
- Spinning by Tillie Walden, call number: YA GN SPINNING
- Sumo by Thien Pham, call number: YA GN SUMO
- Haikyu!! By Haruichi Furudate, call number: YA GN HAIKYU
- Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang, call number: YA GN DRAGON
Nonfiction
- Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and The Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin, call number: YA 796.3326 SHEINKIN
- Games of deception: the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by Andrew Maraniss, call number: YA 796.480943
- LGBTQ+ athletes claim the field: striving for equality by Kristin Cronn-Mills, call number: YA 796.0866 CRONN-MILLS
- Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream by H.G. Bissinger, call number: 796.3326 BISSINGER
- Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland, call number: B COPELAND
- Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox, call number: B CO
- The Victory Machine : the making and unmaking of the Warriors dynasty by Ethan Sherwood Strauss, call number: 796.323 STRAUSS
- Soccerwomen: The icons, rebels, stars, and trailblazers who transformed the beautiful game by Gemma Clarke, call number: 796.334 CLARKE
- Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan, call number: YA B MORGAN
- My Shot: Balancing it All and Standing Tall by Elena Delle Donne, call number: YA B DONNE
- Proud :an American story of faith, family and olympic glory by Ibtihaj Muhammad, call number: B MUHAMMAD