Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories

To play professional hockey, you need plenty of grit and determination-it's a physically and emotionally punishing job.

For the first time, Sadie's little brother Ori will be joining her at sleep-away camp.

The student has become the teacher.

Tao and his friends are super excited for the International Martial Arts Championship!

Orlando has speed that no other member of the Troy Central High Trojans can match.

Kyle and Mike share a dream of playing college football.

On any other team, Gary Jayo would be a starting quarterback.

In Troy, Ohio, there's Trojan football and then there's everything else.

Team Green Machine battles the Shredding Crew for dino-boarding domination!

Hiram's father forbids violence.

Luc doesn't like to fight.

For years, Leung has been learning Wing Chun.

Myles McReary is trying to save up enough money to bring his family over from Ireland.

Will's father is running for mayor.

George Choogart has just stepped off the boat to Manhattan.

The Dino-Wrestling Jamboree is ON!

When veggie-nibbling Grazers and meat-munching Biters take to the soccer field, it's a showdown of prehistoric proportions.

In a hockey match unrivaled in prehistory, the Meat-Eaters take on the Veggiesaurs.

The Greenblades and the Rippers face off in the Mega-Bowl!

When the carnivorous Meat face the herbivorous Grass Clippers, rims are sure to rattle!

When the plant-eating Green Sox face the meat-eating Rib-Eye Reds, baseball will never be the same.

Do you know: Who once scored 10 goals in a single hockey game?

Tao dreams of becoming a martial arts master, but his wandering mind always gets him into trouble.

Tao is studying martial arts at the famous Master Snow's school.

Will you succeed on an epic quest in ancient China, full of bandits, ghosts, and flying fists?

DeAndre knows racing again could land him back in reform school-or this time, behind bars.

Ever since James turned old enough to drive, he's wanted to enter his Ford Focus ST in the street races downtown.

Ken Genie knows tragedy.

The great thing about drifting, thinks Kekoa, is that it's more about skill than expensive parts.

Eddie King dreams of drag racing.

An Acura Integra has been in Penny's family's garage for years.

Hector's father used to be a Golden Gloves champion boxer.

Jackson James wants three things: to succeed in MMA, to join the military like his father, and to protect his little brother from ending up in trouble like he did.

Tao dreams of becoming a martial arts master, but his wandering mind always gets him into trouble.

Meghan lived through the car crash that killed her mom, but it left her with injuries that ruined her school sports career.

Purely fiction, these stories tell the tales of athletes in a variety of sports, including track, football, martial arts, Ping Pong, fishing, and dirt bike riding.

When twelve-year-old Jake Forrest's mother gets a job in a new city, everything changes.

Fatherless Cody LeBeau is an American Indian boy who is starting high school with the usual trepidation.

Rufus is tired of being yelled at by his football coach.

In this sequel to Willy the Scrub, the gang has joined a kayaking club after school.

Nine-year-old Venus Macquire is ready to trade smiling for the camera for nailing a soccer ball into the net.

It's hard being different.

As a defender for the Fraser High girls soccer team, Addie used to be ready for anything.

Between finishing late school projects and looking after her brothers and sister, Faith Patel barely has time to play soccer.

Since they were six-year-olds, Madison and Dayton have had soccer sync.

Elise comes from a long line of college athletes.

It's the start of a new soccer season, and Lacy Sheridan is anxious.

Alyssa Duncan is a beast on the soccer field.

This anthology of short, autobiographical stories has kids' book authors telling tales of their own real-life athletic incidents.

Nick Cosimo eats, breathes, and lives baseball.