Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories

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!

Houston Texans defensive lineman J.

Chosen first overall in the 2008 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft, Derrick Rose is one of the most explosive players in basketball.

When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was in high school, his coaches thought he was too skinny to play in college.

Batter up!

Lena Blackburne loved baseball.

In 1936, the New York Yankees wanted to test a hot prospect named Joe DiMaggio to see if he was ready for the big leagues.

Luc doesn't like to fight.

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

Will's father is running for mayor.

Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all.

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.

Touchdown: The Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play takes readers beyond the record books and explores all aspects of bringing the ball into the end zone.

From three-pointers to slam dunks, Swish: The Quest for Basketball's Perfect Shot goes beyond the record books and explores all aspects of making a basket.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sammy Perez has to make it to the big leagues.

Pitcher Seth Carter had Tommy John surgery on his elbow in hopes of being able to throw harder.

After breaking records and winning awards in college basketball, Brittney Griner was the first pick in the 2013 WNBA draft.

Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has been one of Major League Baseball's (MLB) best players for more than ten years.

Baseball has long been dubbed America's national pastime.

In 2013, New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera announced he would retire after playing 19 seasons in the major leagues.

Bryce Harper always wanted to play Major League Baseball (MLB).