Browsing: Sports

In this middle grade novel in verse that’s Love That Dog meets The Watsons Go to Birmingham meets Slam, twelve-year-old…

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: Major league players get all the glory, but what about those who never make it out of the minors? “A charming, meditative portrait of a minor league baseball game that seemed to last forever” (Publishers Weekly).

New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein takes readers behind the scenes at the World Series in this exciting baseball…

“Fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner will here find a similarly uplifting story about good people surviving their horrific circumstances… A tense, compelling story” (Library Journal). In war-torn Kabul, Rukhsana and her family overturn prejudice in a wild bid for freedom — through one high-stakes ball game.

This New York Times Notable Book follows the Chance family as they encounter the hardships and triumphs of 20th-century American life. An “ambitious” novel that “succeeds on almost every level and every page” (USA Today).

Fans of Into Thin Air will be enthralled by this true story of courage and chaos atop one of the world’s tallest mountains. In 2008, eight international climbing teams ascended the peak of K2 — but a horrifying, unforeseen disaster would plunge them into a fight for their lives…

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend–the…

Emma Gatewood was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first personman or…

This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went…

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn’t slept in…