teamwork (sports)

The Westside Community Center where Lew plays basketball is in danger of shutting down. With no other teams available in the area, Lew and his teammates desperately work to save the center so they can continue to play.

After showing promise at whiffle ball, Blake's friends encourage him to try out for a traveling baseball team. He makes it through tryouts as a second-string player. But when a starter gets injured, Blake is called to action.

When fourteen-year-old Leggie LaGrande, star runner on the Bricklin Middle School track team, suffers a hamstring injury at the very start of the season, he figures his shot at the Junior Olympics is over--but his coach insists that even if he cannot run he can still compete in some other track and field event, so he finds himself working out at the shot put, competing with a new student whom he dislikes.

When a new boy joins the Titans soccer team, Berk, who has always played goalkeeper, is challenged for that position and he must decide whether to hold a grudge or act for the good of the team.

Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.

"Hit and Maika meet an elite boy named Ko who joins them on their crazy adventures"--Back cover.

"Can you believe it's already our third volume of the Squid Kids Comedy Show? Drop in to see the . . . new battles featuring the coolest Inklings ever: Hit, Maika and Kou"--Back cover.

Bobby Longbeak, a wide receiver for the Turkeys, must learn how to rein in his wild end zone celebrations.

Ollie Overwing the owl is one of the best pitchers his baseball team has ever seen. But when the owls have a hard time following the umpire's strict rules, their chances at victory are slim.

Spikelle Jordan is the star point guard for the Hedgehogs, but guard Maddy and the other players think she is a real ball hog, who never passes the basketball to anyone, so Spikelle decides to try and concentrate on just passing--but what she really needs to do is find the balance in her game.