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The Race: a novel of grit, tactics, and the Tour de France
Par Dave Shields. 2004
Young American Ben has earned an opportunity to compete in the Tour de France. Complex relationships with teammates, personal and…
professional obstacles, and a terrible disaster cause the young cyclist to confront both himself and his past more directly than ever before. 2004.The Quebec City crisis (Screech Owls series. #7.)
Par Roy MacGregor, Greg Banning. 1998
The Screech Owls are excited to be playing in the Quebec Peewee International, the biggest and best amateur hockey tournament…
in the world. But things start to go wrong - first Travis' trip diary, published in the newspaper, causes the fans to boo their team due to a terrible misunderstanding. Then, someone begins a campaign of terror against the Owls, and if they're going to stand a chance in the tournament, the team has to find out who it is. Grades 4-7. (The Screech Owls series ; 7)The perfect gymnast (Sports stories (Toronto, Ont.) #9)
Par Michele Martin Bossley. 1996
When twelve-year-old Abby makes a friend at gymnastics she stops feeling shy and starts enjoying herself. Hillary is outgoing, confident,…
and a top-ranked gymnast. She also has a serious problem. When Hillary asks Abby to keep her problem a secret Abby must decide whether to help Hillary by speaking out or to keep quiet and maintain their friendship. 1996.The power of one
Par Bryce Courtenay. 1989
When 5-year-old Peekay, an English boy, is sent to boarding school, he is hated by the Afrikaner children. A kind…
train conductor teaches him to box, but over the next 15 years, his dream of becoming a world boxing champion is hindered by the politics and racism of South Africa. Some strong language. 1989.The penalty killing: A Martin Carter Mystery (Martin Carter mystery.)
Par Michael McKinley. 2010
Ex-hockey great Martin Carter now works for the New York St. Patricks, a team whose playoff hopes die when a…
crucial game ends in a bench-clearing brawl which leaves a star forward in a coma. Only one person saw what happened - she caught it on video to use for blackmail. When her body is found two days later, Carter's DNA is all over her and her apartment, hers is in his, and the footage, which now only he has seen, is missing. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2010.The night they stole the Stanley Cup (Screech Owls series. #2)
Par Roy MacGregor. 1995
The Screech Owls hockey team is in Toronto for the biggest tournament of their lives, but everything goes wrong. Nish…
sprains his ankle at the CN Tower, team members get caught shoplifting, and during a tour of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Travis overhears two men plotting to swipe the Stanley Cup and hold it for ransom! Can the Screech Owls save the Cup, and can they also rise to the challenge and play their best hockey ever? Grades 4-7. 1995. (The Screech Owls series ; 2)The million dollar shot
Par Dan Gutman. 1997
Eddie enters a contest sponsored by Finkle Foods and has the chance to win a million dollars if he can…
sink a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals. But Mr. Finkle can't afford to let Eddie win. Grades 4-7. 1997.The magic finger
Par Roald Dahl. 1995
The Koufax dilemma
Par Steven Schnur. 1997
Danny Guttman, eleven, a southpaw with a great fastball, is supposed to pitch at the season opener. There is just…
one problem--the game is on the first night of Passover, and his mother refuses to let him miss the family Seder. As the day approaches, Danny argues with his parents and teammates, and even threatens to quit the team, but an event on the day of the game changes his outlook. Grades 4-7. 1997.The Kansas City Cowboys
Par Johnny D Boggs. 2017
Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player--and…
King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes. 2017.The key to the Golden Firebird: a novel
Par Maureen Johnson. 2004
After their father's sudden fatal heart attack, the Gold sisters each cope in their own way. May tries to hold…
the family together even as she goes to pieces, Palmer begins to have panic attacks, and Brooks quits the softball team, gets drunk on a regular basis, and makes plans to have sex with her not-quite-boyfriend. Everything revolves around their father's Pontiac Firebird, which serves as a haven for one of the girls, a means to rebel for another, and an important part of the healing process for all three. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. For junior high readers. 2004.The Iowa baseball confederacy
Par W. P Kinsella. 1986
Gideon Clarke is obsessed with his departed father's lifelong crusade to prove that, in 1908, baseball's champion Chicago Cubs played…
the Iowa All-Stars in a game that went on for 40 days and nights in a continuous rainstorm. A fantasy of adventures that involves many of baseball's early greats. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.The Ice Chips and the magical rink: Ice Chips Series Book 1
Par Roy MacGregor, Kerry MacGregor. 2018
Lucas Finnigan eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. With his friends Edge, Swift and Crunch, Lucas plays on his hometown’s rink,…
dreaming of the day when he knows he’ll make the NHL. But lately money has been tight at home, and after a major growth spurt, Lucas is forced to wear hand-me-down gear that doesn’t quite fit right. And that’s not the only problem. With the community arena’s chiller on the fritz, and replacement parts too tough to come by, it looks like Lucas and his friends may be doomed to a season on a plastic rink - or worse, no hockey at all! But with a magical discovery, and some help from one of hockey's greatest players, their final skate might turn into their first great adventure. Grades 3-6. Followed by "The Ice Chips and the haunted hurricane". 2018.Between Sundays
Par Karen Kingsbury. 2007
Christian football player Derrick Anderson becomes mentor and backup to shallow San Francisco quarterback Aaron Hill. Meanwhile Megan Gunn's eight-year-old…
foster child Cory insists that he is Aaron's son. When the two athletes volunteer at Cory's youth centre, Cory believes his prayers have come true. Complications and romance follow. 2007.Curve ball
Par John Danakas. 1993
Young Tom Poulos is hoping to play baseball all summer for his little league team in Toronto, but his mom…
decides he would be better off spending the summer with his uncle in Winnipeg. Fortunately the league team in Winnipeg needs a catcher - which is the position Tom plays. Grades 4-7. 1993.Great racing stories
Par Dick Francis, John Welcome. 1989
Breaking away
Par Joseph Howard, Steve Tesich. 1979
A novel about young men in a tradition-bound mid-western town who have finished high school and face making decisions for…
the future. The story focuses on Dave who prepares for a major bicycle race by emulating his heroes on the Italian team. Some strong language. 1979.White boots
Par Noel Streatfeild. 1951
Harriet started skating because she had been very ill, and needed the exercise; but at the rink she found new…
friends, and a quite unexpected ability on the ice. Grades 2-4. 1951.The bloodstone papers
Par Glen Duncan. 2006
India, the 1940s: a time of political turmoil and violence; a country on the verge of it stryst with destiny.…
Ross Monroe is a boxer, a Catholic and an Anglo-Indian - part of the race which for years has run the administrative side of the Raj for the British. From the brutal boarding school of his childhood, through youth in the Indian Air Force and manhood on the Railways, Ross is sustained by a single dream: to box his way to Olympic victory - until a devastating betrayal by an Englishman sends him into exile, and an obsession which will change his life forever. Strong language. 2006.The hockey sweater and other stories (Anansi fiction series. book AF40)
Par Roch Carrier. 1979