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• We Are Mayhem

  Rourke-Mooney, Beck,

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  Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction. When Birdie’s parents move the family from their gated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Furious

  Pacton, Jamie, 1979-

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  Jojo Emerson-Boyd should be on the fast track to her own wildly successful racing career. Instead, she's spending the seemingly endless summer working at her grandmother's auto shop in the small town of Dell's Hollow. Everything changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breathing Underwater

  Nash, Abbey Lee,

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  "Seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her distracting feelings for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rez Ball

  Graves, Byron,

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  "When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up--not on the court, not in school and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alondra

  Femia, Gina,

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  Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldn’t be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chasing Pacquiao

  Pulido, Rod,

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  When Bobby is unwillingly outed he turns to boxing, finding a hero in Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, but when Pacquiao publicly denounces homosexuality, Bobby must discover a hero within himself.

• You Don't Have a Shot

  Marie, Racquel,

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  Escaping to her beloved childhood soccer camp after a fight with her long-time rival Leticia, Vale discovers she and Leticia will be co-captaining a team that could play in front of college scouts, compelling the two to form a shaky…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Ring

  Isley, Sierra,

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  "When high school queer teen, Rose, enrolls in boxing classes to alleviate her crippling anxiety exacerbated by a recent sexual assault, she instead finds herself sucked into an underground fight club and the charms of Elliott King, its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Game on

  15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between

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  A charming and inclusive YA anthology all about games--from athletic sports to board games to virtual reality--from editor Laura Silverman and an all-star cast of contributors. From the slightly fantastical to the utterly real, light and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hoop and the Harm

  Pedican, Jawara,

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  "Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. From very young, he’s been pushed relentlessly by his family on a troubling pursuit for an athletic scholarship.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Stopping Us Now

  a Novel

  Bledsoe, Lucy Jane,

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  It’s 1974. Title IX has passed two years ago, but Louisa’s high school still refuses to fund an all girls basketball team. After hearing Gloria Steinem speak, Louisa learns an important lesson: “The truth will set you free, but first it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Field Advantage

  Adler, Dahlia,

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  Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but after the football team's quarterback dies in an accident and is replaced by a girl, Amber knows she should work against this unliked Jaclyn to keep her cheer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrong Side of the Court

  Khan, H. N.,

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  "Dreaming of being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, 15-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully." -- Novelist.

• She Drives Me Crazy

  Quindlen, Kelly,

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  After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Her Edge

  Iacopelli, Jennifer,

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  "Adriana Russo is figure skating royalty. With gold-medalist parents, and her older sister headed to the Olympics, all she wants is to live up to the family name and stand atop the ice dance podium at the Junior World Championships. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Icebreaker

  Graziadei, A. L.,

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  "Mickey James III is following in his father's (and grandfather's) skates by playing hockey at Hartland University, but he is not enjoying the situation: for one thing he is seriously depressed, unsure of anything, even whether he can make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bruised

  Boteju, Tanya,

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  Daya Wijesinghe sees a bruise as a mixture of comfort and control, but joining a roller derby team push her toward big truths about love, loss, strength, and healing. Since her parents died in an accident Daya Wijesinghe survived, bruises…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why We Fly

  Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice),

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  "When her best friend, who is Black, is the only student suspended for taking a knee at the season's first football game, Eleanor must decide whether or not she wants to jeopardize her new relationship with the star quarterback by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like Other Girls

  Lundin, Britta,

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  "After three other girls follow Mara's lead and join the football team, she's forced to confront her misconceptions about gender and her arch-nemesis"-- Provided by publisher.

• Dangerous Play

  Kress, Emma,

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  Zoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will…Read moreRead more of this annotation