Author

Call #

Title

Dowling, Collett

305.4 Dow

The Frailty Myth:  Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Blumenthal, Karen

796 BLU

Let Me Play:  The Story of Title IX; The Law That Changed the  Future of Girls in America

Examines Title IX, the 1972 legislation which mandated that schools receiving federal funds could not discriminate on the basis of gender. and focuses on its effects in schools, politics, sports and the culture as a whole.

Blais, Madeleine

796.323 Bla

In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle

Chronicles one basketball season of a girls' high school team.

Reynolds, Bill

796.323 Rey

Fall River Dreams

Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team toward its annual drive for a state championship.

Bissinger, H. G.

796.332 Bis

Friday Night Lights

True story of a high-school football season in a small town in Texas.

St. John, Warren

796.332 STJ

Rammer, Jammer, Yellow Hammer:  A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania

Follows Alabama Crimson Tide football fans through a season.

Ralston, Aron

796.51 Ral

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Ralston’s account of his six days trapped with his hand pinned by a fallen rock against a canyon wall.

Hillenbrand, Laura

798.4 HIL

Seabiscuit:  An American Legend

The story of the legendary Depression-era racehorse.

Bryson, Bill

917.404 Bry ADK Coll.

A Walk in the Woods

“Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.”

Cox, Lynne

921 COX

Swimming to Antarctica:  Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

Distance swimmer Lynne Cox describes the challenges of swimming across the English Channel, the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, Cook Strait in New Zealand, and in the cold waters of the Antarctic.

Hornby, Nick

921 HOR

Fever Pitch

The popular British author recounts his life-long obsession with football (that is, soccer).

Irving, John

921 IRV

The Imaginary Girlfriend

The author of “The World According to Garp” recalls his wrestling days.

Ferreras, Pipin

921 MES

The Dive:  A Story of Love and Obsession

Ferreras tells the story of his wife Audrey Mestre, who died trying to break the record for free diving.

Paulsen, Gary

921 PAU

How Angel Peterson Got His Name:  And Other Outrageous Tales of Extreme Sports

Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.

Robinson, Sharon

921 ROB

Promises to Keep:  How Jackie Robinson Changed America

A biography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues, as told by his daughter.

Simpson, Joe

921 Sim

Touching the Void

Search and rescue in the Andes of Peru.

Crutcher, Chris

CRU

Whale Talk

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.

de la Pena, Matt

DEL

Ball Don’t Lie

Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.

Deuker, Carl

DEU

Night Hoops

While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and the erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.

Harris, Mark

HAR

Bang the Drum Slowly

A baseball team learns that one of its members is dying of cancer.

Hewett, Lorri

HEW

Dancer

Sixteen-year-old Stephanie struggles to perfect her ballet dancing as her classes are complicated by the introduction of a new male dancer.

Malamud, Bernard

MAL

The Natural

Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.

Peck, Richard

PEC

Something for Joey

True-life story of pro-football star John Cappalletti and his younger brother Joey, stricken with leukemia.  Novelization of the TV movie.

Powell, Randy

POW

Three Clams and an Oyster

During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.

Tocher, Timothy

TOC

Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me

In 1919, fifteen-year-old Hank escapes an abusive father and goes looking for a chance to become a baseball player, accompanied by a man who calls himself Chief Sunrise and claims to be a full-blooded Seminole.