SPORTS
Yankee Town Featuring Robbie the Rookie
Aimee Aryal
"Robbie the Rookie" is the new star player for the New York Yankees. Read along as Robbie explores the sights and sound of New York City while making new friends along the way.
Winner Takes All
Fred Bowen
When Kyle fakes a catch, his baseball team goes on to win the league championship but Kyle doesn't feel good about winning by cheating. Includes a section on the sportsmanship of Christy Mathewson, a pitcher who played professional baseball in the early 1900s
Free Baseball
Sue Corbett
Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.
Choosing Sides
Ilene Cooper
Jonathan doesn't want his father to think he's a quitter, but middle school basketball—under the lash of a gung-ho coach—is turning out to be anything but fun.
Stepping Up
Mark Fink
Fourteen-year-old Ernie Dolan feels that he has no special talents. When Ernie and best friend Mike go to a basketball camp, Mike excels while Ernie makes mistakes and the two friends have a falling out. Then Ernie risks his life to save three campers and becomes a hero.
The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings
Alan Gratz
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
Baseball Great
Tim Green
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal.
Roberto and Me
Dan Gutman
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
Roy Morelli Steps up to the Plate
Thatcher Heldring
When eighth-grader Roy Morelli's divorced parents find out he is failing history, they ban him from playing on his beloved all-star baseball team, and, even worse, he winds up being tutored by his father's new girlfriend.
Go Big or Go Home
Will Hobbs
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
POP
Gordon Korman
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker whose erractic behavior confuses him, until Marcus discovers that the player is actually suffering from a neurological disease.
The Batboy
Mike Lupica
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
Paintball Blast
Jake Maddox
When Max and Tyler start losing paintball matches to a new player named Ryan, Max is suspicious and sets out to prove that Ryan is cheating.
Rock On
Stephanie Peters
X's friends believe he can excel at any extreme sport, so when they want to check out the new climbing wall at the mall, he decides to hide his fear of heights rather than have them think him a coward.
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
John Ritter
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings.