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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPatina
Jason Reynolds · 360 pages
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
Elite Ambition
Jessica Burkhart · 211 pages
When Sasha Silver becomes the most popular girl at Canterwood Crest Academy, she must figure out a way to deal with her old friends Paige and Callie and the boy she has a crush on.
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander · 240 pages
"A bolt of lightning on my kicks, the court is sizzling, my sweat is drizzling. Stop all that quivering, cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps basketball phenom Josh Bell. Thanks to his dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest ballers cry. But Josh has more than hoops in his blood. He's got a river of rhymes flowing through him -- a sick
Braced
Alyson Gerber · 304 pages
Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics
John Feinstein
Two teenaged aspiring journalists who are dating solve a mystery at the 2012 Olympic Games, while one simultaneously competes for a gold medal in swimming.
Run: Puffin Classics Edition
Eric Walters · 224 pages
Baseball Great
Tim Green · 272 pages
Josh feels like he's starting to make it big! Jaden, the school reporter, says he's going to take the baseball team to number one. Then his dad pulls him off the field and signs him up with Coach Rocky Valentine's youth championship team, the Titans. He says Josh has what it takes to be a baseball great — and the Titans will help him get there.Now Josh is gulping down Rocky's "Super Stax" milkshak
Down the Rabbit Hole
Peter Abrahams · 375 pages
Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets.Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland, Ingrid is swamped. But as th
Jim & Me
Dan Gutman · 195 pages
He was the world's greatest athlete, and a hero — until his medals were taken away.Stosh is shocked when his enemy, Bobby Fuller, begs him for a favor. He wants Stosh to take him back in time to meet Native American Jim Thorpe — an Olympic champion who lost his medals in a scandal. Thorpe went on to play professional baseball and football, but he could never again achieve such fame. His name was d
Planet Middle School
Nikki Grimes · 154 pages
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
Skating Sensation
Rachel Renee Russell · 368 pages
Race the Wind
Lauren St. John · 216 pages
When Casey Blue's victory at the Badminton Horse Trials earns her and Storm an invitation to the prestigious Kentucky Three Day Event, it is a dream come true. But that dream is about to turn into a nightmare. After her father is arrested for a crime Casey is convinced he didn't commit, she finds herself the victim of a vicious blackmailer. To make matters worse, Storm is behaving like the wild ho
A Matter of Heart
Amy Fellner Dominy · 313 pages
Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win the state swim championships and qualify for the Olympic trials when a fainting incident at a swim meet leads to the diagnosis of a deadly heart condition. Now Abby is forced to discover who she is without the one thing that's defined her entire life.
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
Jordan Sonnenblick
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
Amazing Grace
Megan Shull · 260 pages
Two words changed Grace's life, forever. "I'm done." She quickly changes from Grace "Ace" Kincaid seatbelt-wearing, rule follower, stressing sort of girl, to Emily O'Brien, brave, bold, and daring! She has to get through three months first, then everything will be completely normal for her. Three months have never been so long- or so short. (Different Verison) Tennis has a new "it" girl and her n
Winners
Danielle Steel · 416 pages
Paralyzed by a tragic chairlift accident, seventeen-year-old competitive skier Lily struggles with the loss of her Olympic dreams before meeting a young man, Teddy, who has overcome his own devastating injuries to pursue an enriching life.
Wild Cards
Simone Elkeles · 344 pages
Told from two viewpoints, Derek Fitzpatrick, kicked out of boarding school, must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream of a football scholarship with bad boy Derek's help.
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
Keija Parssinen · 336 pages
White Boots
Noel Streatfeild · 286 pages
Can the friendship between Harriet, who skates for fun, and Lalla, future world champion, survive the threat from Lalla's formidable Aunt Claudia?