teamwork (sports)

When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.

As a soccer player, the reader decides whether or not to give a teammate who needs practice a chance to shine during a game.

Thirteen-year-old Julian Pryce was star center on an undefeated basketball team before moving to a new town, where he quickly gets on the wrong side of the starting center, whose father happens to be their coach.

Tyler's hope that his soccer team will be undefeated is dashed when his friend Zack, the team's star midfielder, and two more of the Cougars' best players accept an offer to play for an elite travel team.

While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.

Arthur challenges Francine to a game of kickball to prove to her that a person does not have to be a great athlete to be important to the team.

Henry learns a lesson in teamwork when his inexperienced basketball team, the Bats, takes on the Tigers, a team that not only plays at the big YWCA but has a player old enough to shave.

Arthur really wants to play baseball on the Little League team with his friends, but when Francine teases him because he cannot seem to catch a ball, he worries that his skills are never going to be good enough.