sports fiction

"Rhyno the Rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the soccer pitch. How will the team react when a new coach comes to the field? Will the team be flexible and win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Back cover.

"Rhyno the rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the lacrosse field. Will Rhyno be able to show leadership as the new team captain? Will they win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Back cover.

"Rhyno the Rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the ice. How will Rhyno help Christian the Fox be honest about why he is the star goalie? Will they win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Provided by publisher.

"Rhyno the rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the gridiron. How will Rhyno help Cole the emu show support to his teammates? Will they win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Back cover.

"Rhyno the rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the court. How will Rhyno help Isaac the alligator have respect and win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Back cover.

"Rhyno the rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the baseball diamond. How will Rhyno's teammates help him persevere and win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Back cover.

Twelve-year-old Valeria "Magic" Salom?n is a soccer prodigy, and she is the only girl on the elite boys' team her abuelo coaches. She's determined to make it to the Olympic Development Program, but when Magic gets her first period and embarrassingly bleeds through her white shorts in front of everyone during a State Cup match, she's cut from the team. Valeria talks her way onto a girls' soccer team, despite having missed the tryout, but her new teammates are less than thrilled as she's spent years ignoring them to compete with the boys. Valeria must learn how to play with a team, instead of just focusing on herself, and things get even more complicated when Valeria's cousin Max comes from Argentina to live with them, and he takes over Valeria's old position on the team.

"Nate plays soccer, but he doesn't love it. He plays because it's what his family expects. Then Lucas Cawley moves in across the street. Lucas isn't like any of Nate's sports friends--he's poor, his parents are mostly absent, and he's devoted to his sister, Megan, who has a learning disability. Lucas may be an outcast at school, but he and Nate find common ground in their fierce games of one-on-one basketball. It's not long before Nate realizes that basketball is his sport. But Nate has an ax to grind with star players Colin and Bo, who have disrespected him for years. Nate believes that outplaying those two is the most important thing . . . until he learns that life is about more than getting ready for the next game"--Amazon.

Soccer star Kristy Barrett, a thirteen-year-old who dreams of playing for the women's Olympic team, faces an identity crisis and struggles with pain and panic attacks after a severe concussion sidelines her.

Born and raised in a small town, twelve-year-old Leo K. Doyle has never seen the ocean or stepped foot on a plane. But Leo is a star soccer player with big dreams in life. . . While Leo longs to make the pros one day, he has no idea how to achieve this goal - until a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo's games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as The Academy. Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn't just any old soccer team. It's a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Only eleven players can make the team. Eleven out of two hundred of the very best twelve-year-old players on the planet. Along with the gruelling competition, Leo must also face a bully intent on torpedoing his summer, a roomie who doesn't know how to have fun, a terrifying camp director, and, most of all, Leo's own lack of formal training and the fear he'll never succeed. By the end of the summer, Leo will become a much better player and forever changed by his experience. But will he be good enough to make the Academy?.