Rich Wallace
1) Takedown
Author
Series
Winning season volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 10
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
As his own self-confidence grows, seventh-grader Dunk learns to be supportive both on and off the basketball court when his friend Jared goes through a difficult time, even though Jared's failure would provide Dunk more opportunities to prove himself.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Free throw specialist Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Jason Fiorelli is having a great year as wingback on the Hudson City Hornets. Twenty-seven receptions, six touchdowns, and fifty points for the season! Now with only three games left, the league title is within reach, until — disaster — the Hornets' star quarterback has a season-ending injury. And Wade, the replacement quarterback doesn't have the talent to take charge.
In a surprise move, Coach sends Jason in as emergency quarterback. It's...
In a surprise move, Coach sends Jason in as emergency quarterback. It's...
5) Curveball
Author
Series
Winning season volume 9
Language
English
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Description
The pressures of being an undercover reporter are getting to Eddie Ventura. No one on his baseball team has realized that he is the anonymous writer behind all the great new coverage their team has been getting from their school newspaper. The only problem is—not everyone is thrilled with the stories, or the uncanny way their secrets are being leaked to the press. Should Eddie quit writing for the school newspaper before his secret is uncovered?...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
It's the summer of 1969. We've just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down in New Jersey, twelve-year-old Brody is mostly concerned with the top ten hits on the radio and how much playing time he'll get on the football team. But when he goes along for the ride to Woodstock with his older brother and sees the mass of humanity there, he...
Author
Series
Winning season volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the middle school football team, using determination, speed, and smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when the point guard accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.
9) Double fake
Author
Series
Winning season volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Friends Calvin Tait and Zero Rollison look forward to a season of soccer with the YMCA summer league. Soon Calvin finds himself leading his team to the finals, where they'll compete against the toughest players in the league, twin sisters with Mia Hamm-inspired shots on goal.
10) Fast Company
Author
Series
Winning season volume 3
Language
English
Description
Manny Ramos is the fastest guy on the Hudson City Youth football team—maybe even the fastest in his school—so the new track club seems perfect for him. His light weight could finally be a benefit instead of a curse! When he first sees the enormous indoor sporting complex where he’ll race some of the fastest guys around, Manny is awed. Will his time in the 800 meters be any competition for guys who’ve been racing for years?...
11) Southpaw
Author
Series
Winning season volume 6
Language
English
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Description
After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.
12) The ball hogs
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Series
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ben, a natural athlete and member of the Bobcats co-ed soccer team, wants to overcome his inexperience and prove himself on the field, but his obnoxious teammate, Mark, keeps hogging the ball.
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
79 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When young Archer and his partner, Bull, find a silver vein in the Arizona desert, they think they will be rich, but Cactus Flats is a town with many dangers and men waiting to double-cross them, and the reader must choose between three possible endings.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
80 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the starting point guard sprains his ankle during a game, Jamere steps in until his rival teammate returns for the championship. But with both boys expecting to start in the final game, their coach asks Jamere to decide who will play. The ending is Up2u!
17) Game-day jitters
Author
Series
Kickers volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With help from his older brother Larry, nine-year-old Ben learns to cope with his nervousness about the Kickers League playoffs. Includes "Ben's Top Ten Tips for Soccer Players."
18) Fake out
Author
Series
Kickers volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ben and other members of the Bobcats co-ed soccer team improve their skills and begin to win, especially after Ben learns the importance of concentration from his older brother and finally masters the fake out.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as "Bloody Lowndes", an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil rights workers. Five months later, Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed while saving the life of Ruby Sales, a black teenager. Through...
20) Sports camp
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Riley Liston tries to fit in at Camp Olympia, a summer sports camp where he is one of the youngest boys.