Baseball Great

The San Antonio Spurs Story

Allen Iverson: Never Give Up (Sports Leaders Series)

The Big Field

The Man with the Magic Foot: A football adventure for 9-13 yr olds (Chadmouth Town Football Club)

Scholastic Year in Sports 2021

Hit & Miss

Love of the Game (4 for 4, 3)

Forced to live on his own after his mom dies and her boyfriend abandons him, 12-year-old Jayson does whatever it takes to get by. He will do anything to avoid the foster care system. Besides, his real home has always been the beat-up basketball court behind the projects in the North Carolina hills, and his family has always been his friends and teammates. He manages to get away with his deception until the day he gets caught stealing a new pair of basketball sneakers. Game over. Within a day a social worker places him with a family from the other side of town, the Lawtons. New home, new school, new teammates. Jayson, at first, is combatative, testing the Lawtons' patience at every turn. He wants out, yet the Lawtons refuse to take the bait. But not everyone in Jayson's new life is so ready to trust him--and even Jayson's old friends give him a hard time now that he's attending a school full of rich kids. It's on Jayson to believe that he deserves a better life than the one he once had. The ultimate prize if he can? A trip to play in the state finals at Cameron Indoor Stadium–home to the Duke Blue Devils and launching pad to his dream of playing big time college ball. Getting there will be a journey that reaches far beyond the basketball court.

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Baseball Great

Tim Green, 2000

The San Antonio Spurs Story

Richard Rambeck, 1994

Allen Iverson: Never Give Up (Sports Leaders Series)

John A. Torres, 2004

The Big Field

Mike Lupica, 2008

The Man with the Magic Foot: A football adventure for 9-13 yr olds (Chadmouth Town Football Club)

Ian Slatter, 2021

Scholastic Year in Sports 2021

James Buckley Jr., 2020

Hit & Miss

Derek Jeter, Paul Mantell, 2015

Love of the Game (4 for 4, 3)

John Coy, 2011