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Game changers volume 1
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Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
6) Final season
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"With two all-star college football players for brothers and a former Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman for a father, it is only natural for sixth-grade quarterback Benjamin Redd to follow in their footsteps. However, after his dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis--connected to all those hard hits and tackles he took on the field--Ben's mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit football. Ben isn't playing just for himself though....
7) Kid owner
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When Ryan's estranged father unexpectedly dies, Ryan learns that he has inherited the Dallas Cowboys. With his new role as owner of this NFL team, Ryan has high hopes that he can be more than just a middle-school misfit. Maybe he can even get off the bench and into the starting lineup of his own football team. With the help of his friends Jackson and Izzy, Ryan takes advantage of his newfound stardom. He convinces his coach to use a tricky passing...
9) Lone stars
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When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.
11) The extra yard
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"Last spring in Walton everything changed for Teddy. Thanks to his new best friends, Jack, Cassie, and Gus, he started working out, shaping up, and even earned a spot on the Walton baseball team. For Teddy, though, the dream has always been football. Which is why this year is so important. He's trained. He's practiced. He's ready for anything. When one of his teammates suffers a devastating injury and his dad starts helping out on the sidelines, will...
12) Bleachers
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From the best-selling author of The Painted House, Skipping Christmas, and The Firm comes a nostalgic novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion. High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who...
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Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. The reluctant school football hero was 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 teacher forces him to go to the rehearsals for the school play as punishment where he puts his own spin on the play...
15) Football hero
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When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the mafia.
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Fly Guy volume 6
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Fly Guy joins Buzz's football team, despite Coach's misgivings, and hits the field for a special, secret play.
17) Deal breaker
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Deal Breaker is the debut of Myron Bolitar, a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent. When Myron's prize quarterback receives a call from a former girlfriend, who was believed to be dead, Myron's deal begins to so sour. Myron learns about the dark side of the business, where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
19) Between Sundays
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Derrick Anderson, a retiring quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, promised his dying son that he would win a Super Bowl for him. His hope may rest on upcoming star Aaron Hill, who is beginning to find the glitz and glamour of life at the top meaningless. To complicate things, there's a young foster child named Cory who believes that Aaron is his dad and is determined to get his point across, and sparks fly between Aaron and Megan, Cory's foster...
20) The off season
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High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.