"Elliot is the new quarterback for the Baytown Blobfish. And the only girl on the team! Her parents are worried but she's not. When an older teammate gives her a hard time, Elliot must decide how to handle it. Will she make the right choice?"--Back cover.
After years of playing nothing but soccer in Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work very hard to play on the middle school football team, using determination, speed, and smarts to make up for being small and inexperienced.
Sam is proud that his touchdown in the final play of a game left his football team undefeated, but when a videorecording of the game reveals that the touchdown was scored illegally, he and the other Cowboys must decide whether to reveal the truth. Includes facts about a similar situation faced by Cornell University's team after a game with Dartmouth in 1940.
Feeling bad about last year's Field Day, in which her slow running cost the relay team a victory, Nancy, who enjoys using fancy words, finds herself facing another Field Day and another relay race with a mean classmate.
Kyle fakes a catch that leads his baseball team to a league championship, but he does not feel good about winning by cheating and must make a difficult decision to tell the truth. Includes an account of the sportsmanship of Christy Mathewson, a pitcher who played professional baseball in the early 1900s.
"Elliot is the new quarterback for the Baytown Blobfish. And the only girl on the team! Her parents are worried but she's not. When an older teammate gives her a hard time, Elliot must decide how to handle it. Will she make the right choice?"--Back cover.
