Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball teams when he decides to take a stand against the new coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing team-wide participation.
Sarah Byrnes and Eric have been close friends since they were children -- his fat and her terrible scars made them both outcasts. While Eric slims down on the swim team, Sarah sits silent in a hospital. Eric must uncover the terrible secret she's hiding and save her before dark currents pull them under.
Also by Chris Crutcher:
While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
Also by Carl Deuker:
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eigth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented plater is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
Also by John Feinstein:
Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
Also by Tim Green:
Thirteen-year-old Whisper, who hates sports, is torn when she gets a chance to win a million dollars by kicking a goal against a local soccer hero.
Also by Dan Gutman:
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly replaces his injured brother in the family racecar he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if-- he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a NASCAR racer.
Also by Robert Lipsyte:
Jock and his eccentric family spend the summer working at Grampus's golf complex, where they end up learning the rules of "The Big Game of Everything."
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him
Also by Walter Dean Myers:
In his senior year, high school linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself and discovers that he might be interested in more than football.
Two high school students, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime togetherand getting caught.
Also by Paul Volponi: