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Here are some of our favorite sports stories! These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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The playmakers
by Chad Morris
After being cut from the middle school basketball team, twelve-year-old Jax forms his own team with an unlikely group of students to prove themselves to the whole school.
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The Final Goal
by Mary Amato
Albert, Star Striker for the Zeenods, and his alien teammates face the final game of the interplanetary soccer tournament and confront the empire that wants to defeat them once and for all.
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The Girls of Skylark Lane
by Robin Benway
The National Book Award Winner's debut middle grade novel finds twin sisters Aggie and Jac joining a ragtag neighborhood girls softball team at a time when growing up could mean growing apart.
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Select
by Christie Matheson
Twelve-year-old Alex loves playing soccer, and she's good at it, too. When her skills land her a free ride to play for Select, an elite soccer club, it feels like a huge opportunity. Joining Select could be the key to a college scholarship and a bright future--one that Alex's family can't promise her. But as the team gets better and better, her new coach pushes the players harder and harder, until soccer starts to feel more like punishment than fun. And then there comes a point where enough is enough, and Alex and her teammates must take a stand to find a better way to make their soccer dreams come true.
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It's All or Nothing, Vale
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Valentina Camacho was the top athlete at her fencing gym until a life-changing accident, but now her body doesn't move the same and there's a new number one, in a story about a girl finding her way back to her passion.
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Free Throws, Friendship, and Other Things We Fouled Up
by Jenn Bishop
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries– especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
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Sweet & Bitter Rivals
by Jessica Burkhart
Receiving anonymous messages that threaten to reveal how she accidentally cost her biggest rival, Selly, a chance at team captain, Abby St. Claire puts on blinders and focuses on her horse, Beau, but finds out the hard way that secrets don't make friends at Saddlehill Academy.
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Much Ado about Baseball
by Rajani LaRocca
Seventh grader and math wiz Trish plans to play on the baseball team, but fellow math wiz Ben thinks baseball is a torture he would like to avoid--but now the two, who competed against each other in a math tournament, find themselves on the same baseball team. Includes recipes and math facts.
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Dinged
by Tom Greenwald
When his dad, a former NFL Superstar and now the town celebrity, starts exhibiting strange behavior, up-and-coming freshman quarterback Caleb Springer realizes the sport he loves may be the cause.
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Control Freaks
by J. E. Thomas
When the principal of the super competitive Benjamin Banneker STEAM Academy announces the start of an epic Team Competition, Frederick Douglass Zezzmer is determined to win the trophy and prove to his dad he's worthy, but soon he learns there is no “I” in “Team.”
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Remember Us
by Jacqueline Woodson
It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood.
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Barely Floating
by Lilliam Rivera
Channeling her rage into synchronized swimming dreams, 12-year-old Nat, who doesn't care what people think, fights for what she wants as she builds a community of those who lift her up and help her stay afloat when waters get rough.
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Puppy Love
by Gary Soto
After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, 13-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies needing rescue?
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Slugfest
by Gordon Korman
Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka“Slugfest,” in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget.
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Captain Skidmark Dances with Destiny
by Jennifer A. Irwin
Thirteen-year-old Will is generally miserable at the middle school where his father is principal, but after his father refuses to let him attend dance school, Will finds common ground with his seventeen-year-old hockey-star cousin, Alex, because Alex's father also will not listen to what his son wants.
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Hands
by Torrey Maldonado
Taking boxing lessons to handle his abusive stepdad, which everyone thinks is a bad idea, talented artist Trev, who needs his hands to help him build a better future, must decide whether to use them to build or to knock down.
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Hidden Truths
by Elly Swartz
When an explosion leaves his best friend Dani unable to do the one thing in the world she cares about, Eric is brought into direct conflict with another friend while searching for answers about the accident, putting his loyalty to the test.
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Air
by Monica Roe
When her wheelchair motocross dreams get shattered, 12-year-old Emmie finds the community rallying around her, but cannot shake the feeling that her goals are no longer her own and must take a stand for what she wants.
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Defending Champ
by Mike Lupica
To save the girls soccer team, Alex Carlisle and her teammates hatch a plan for a "battle against the sexes" to raise money for the school's athletic program so that no one is left on the sidelines.
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Shot Clock
by Caron Butler
When the police officer who killed his best friend, a hoops phenom, is back on the job, Tony, the statistician for the AAU basketball team, must deal with his own grief and help his community heal while leading his team to victory.
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