school sports

Provides illustrated explanations and age categories of sports rules, using diagrams to show correct skills and plays, and including a history of each sport; covers track and field, swimming and diving, target games, team ball games, gymnastics, combat sports, court and table games, and team stick and ball games.

New student Dashiell Brody wants to play baseball with the boys, which leads to problems with her family and her school.

Matt and his school baseball team the Sharks enjoy their visit to Japan.

Jes, a short and shy teenager, finds his life changing when he joins the wrestling team, and finds trouble one night when he runs into Banjo and Joey in the tunnel.

Sophomore student Frank, having been recruited to help his school's varsity basketball team win, gets mad over trash talking and the fact that the team relies so much on him and quits, leaving the rest of the team to figure out a way to convince him to play again.

Journalist Paul Cuadros goes to Siler City, North Carolina, with the intention of writing about the hardships faced by the town's Latino immigrants, but after observing the strained relationships between the town's longtime residents and the newcomers, he decides to help bring them together and begins coaching a high school soccer team that gets to the state championships.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

Bill Train, a talented pitcher for the Edison High Egg Rolls, has two good friends on the team but cannot seem to make the coach like him, or anyone else for that matter.

Jeremy Bloom is offered a second chance to pull up his D- grades from the previous year in his teacher's poetry writing class. His topic is sports.

High school hockey star Pete Gordon finds himself on the worst team in the league when school districts change, and Pete must contend with his waning interest in the sport after a string of team losses threatens his hopes for the playoffs.