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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report on Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie-he hated every minute of the book! Why does the dog in every classic novel have to croak at the end? After Wallace refuses to do a rewrite, his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play of Old Shep, My Pal, forces him to go to the rehearsals...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Danny loves to go fast. With his super speed, he can rush down the football field in seconds. The trouble is he forgets to slow down off of the field. When he zips through his homework, he makes mistakes. When he eats too fast, he feels sick. How will Danny learn that a running back can't always rush?
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high school football players, one white, one black, become friends, but some changes are too difficult to accept.
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Last spring Teddy's life changed for the better. He started working out, shaping up, and even earned a spot on the Walton baseball team, and with the team he went all the way to the Little League World Series. But the best things to come out of that season were his friendships with Jack, Cassie, and Gus, and the confidence to finally try out for football. But Teddy learns that his father, who left them a long time ago, is back in Walton and back in...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America. The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $13 billion in annual revenue. Yet its current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell...
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Santiago Muñez, a footballer, travels to Spain to pursue his dream: To join Real Madrid, one of the most important footbll clubs in the world! Adapted from the film by Jaume Collet-Serra and corresponding to level A1 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference ). Focusing on 1,000 essential words, the book and the text recorded on CD, this work is designed to help young people enjoy their Spanish learning experience.
11) Murderball
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
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