teamwork (sports)

Grace enjoys hanging out with her swimming teammates and making new friends. But when Chloe joins the relay team, she and Grace clash. Grace tries hard to be friends with Chloe but fails every time. Then at a big swim meet, Chloe blames Grace for getting disqualified. Grace can't believe it. She doesn't understand why Chloe is so hostile toward her. Will the two girls learn to look past their differences and work together for the good of the whole team? In graphic novel format.

"Grace loves swimming and is excited about joining the relay team, but not being able to make friends with teammate Chloe upsets her, especially when Chloe blames Grace for a disqualification. Includes discussion questions, information about swimming, and glossaries"--OCLC.

Thirteen-year-old Aniyah's mother and all of her aunts went to historically Black universities and were drill and step team members, but Aniyah does not like performing and has avoided stepping, until her friend Stacy convinces her that now they are entering eighth grade they should both join the school step club which does not compete; Aniyah discovers that stepping can be fun--but when the club decides to enter a competition all of Aniyah's fears come back and she wants to quit.

Eager to follow in his father's footsteps, Ramon Hill, a talented sixth-grader playing on the eighth-grade lacrosse team, worries about doing his best and being accepted by his older teammates.

"Devin, a seventh-grader and co-captain of the soccer team, is worried that her friends' issues will keep them from being 'in the zone' while playing"--OCLC.

With the playoffs over, Devin and her seventh-grade friends decide to try out for a soccer travel team, but friendships are threatened because not everyone makes it on to the tough, competitive team, and in the mean time the girls are faced with a crisis--budget cuts threaten to eliminate the soccer program at the elementary school Devin's little sister attends.

Ryan wants to form a curling team at school with A.J. and Andrea, but soon trouble amongst his teammates threatens to end their season early.

Young Derek's dream of sailing to a championship under his father's coaching is complicated by unplanned challenges.

As a freshman at one of the best private high schools in Detroit, Isaiah has earned a spot on the varsity basketball team. But at home his family is falling apart, and he struggles with the feeling that he's lost his street-cred by moving to the suburbs.

When Serge is recruited from the Sudan to come play basketball at a high profile prep school in Chicago, there are bigger obstacles than culture shock to contend with. Serge must try to put his past behind him and use basketball to make something of his life in America.