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Pub. Date
2020
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Timed to coincide with the National Football Leagues 100th anniversary, NFL: 100 Years celebrates the history of Americas most popular and highly watched sport. From its humble beginnings in Canton, Ohio, to its emergence as a sport cherished by millions, all the key moments and famous athletes are honored within the pages of this handsomely produced book. In addition to the lively text, and action and portrait photography, the story of the game and...
42) The bodyguard
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Ryan Hale, aka Replay, is the most successful running back in his high school's history. With university scouts making him offers he can't refuse, his future seems set. The problem is, Ryan would much rather go to film school. But his dad doesn't want to hear it. His teammates sure don't. He can't afford the application fees anyway. But then a solution appears when Markus, a strange exchange student with outrageous stories about mobsters and hackers,...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the hundred years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has survived a host of challenges—the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues—to produce American icons...
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2017
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SI's team of experts answer once again tackle the questions pro football fans have been debating since the pigskin started flying. Who's the greatest quarterback of all time? The most dominant linebackers? In 2012, Sports Illustrated sought to answer this question in Footballs Greatest. In the past five years, new players have come on the scene, coaches have come and gone and great games have been played. Through it all, SI has been there, analyzing,...
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[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Since one of Carter High's football players made a small wooden falcon in shop class, the team has won all of its games. Did the falcon bring them good luck? Could Carter High beat Newton High again and be No. 1? Would Emmett and the other Newton High players want to win badly enough to steal the lucky falcon?
46) The One and Only
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Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas-a small college town that lives and dies by football. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walkers head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. She stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department. When an unexpected tragedy strikes the Walker community, Sheas world is upended, and she...
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20191029
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Over the past century, professional football has transformed from a game played in leather helmets on cow pastures to one of the most high-tech, popular sports on the planet. In this entertaining and concise history, Jerry Rice and Randy O. Williams celebrate the NFL’s centennial, bringing together colorful memories, insights, and personal experiences and observations from the heroes, losers, innovators, and defining legends who have played the...
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[c2015].
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In 1966, as the champions of the AFL and NFL prepared to play each other for the first time, Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt wrote the following to Commissioner Pete Rozelle: "I have kiddingly called the championship game the Super Bowl, which obviously can be improved upon.." How wrong Hunt was.
51) The blind side
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Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
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"Star quarterback and heartthrob Tyson Palmer has made a name for himself with his spectacular moves - except Dani, whose negative comments about his performance draw high ratings and spectacular notices of her own. Dani can't forgive Tyson's transgressions or forget the sizzling history the two of them shared in college. Even more infuriating, he doesn't realize that the bombshell with huge ratings is the cute girl whose heart he once broke. Can...
55) Gridiron girl
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Iron Valley volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Julia Medina, dubbed Jules by her closest friends, wants to be the new, starting quarterback of Iron Valley High School's football team, and no one is going to stand in her way. That is-until her boyfriend, Owen Malone, steps up to the challenge. Wanting to maintain her relationship with her boyfriend, Jules is torn. But while Owen is in her heart, football is in her blood. Once the idea takes root to quit her championship volleyball team and join...
56) Deal breaker
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 1
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Hardball negotiating is paying off for Myron Bolitar. His newest client, Christian Steele, is about to become The Giants' new superstar. But when Christian's girlfriend disappears and her nude photo surfaces in a porno magazine, Myron gets entangled with a group of sleazy players--and a killer.
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Winning season volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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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.
58) Catching Jordan
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Hundred Oaks volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Jordan Woods is the female captain and quarterback of her high school football team and is fine with being treated like "one of the guys," as long as she lands an athletic scholarship for college, but when a new kid shows up, Jordan gets competition for her starting position and discovers she is developing a crush.
59) Football Hero
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Football genius novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Ty can't believe it when Coach V recruits him for the football team. But Ty's guardian won't let him play. Desperately worried, Ty must come up with a plan to save Than's football career - and ultimately, his life. When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especially a football coach--to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising...
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