Bissinger, H. G.  Friday Night Lights : a Town, a Team, and a
Dream.  1st Da Capo Press gift ed.  [New York] : Da Capo Press, 2003.  Examines the role of high school sports in America as seen through the story of a high school football season in Odessa, Texas.

Bloor, Edward, 1950-.  Tangerine.  1st ed.  San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1997.  Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Carter, Alden R.  Bull Catcher.  New York : Scholastic, c1997. Pete and Jeff continue their friendship and love of baseball as they progress from ninth grade through high school in their small Wisconsin town.

Carter, Alden R.  Love, Football, and Other Contact Sports.  1st ed.  New York : Holiday House, c2006.  A girl's guide to football players -- A football player's guide to love -- Kickoff (or never trust a girl who steals your ice-cream sandwich) -- Trashback -- Pig brains -- Buck's head -- Satyagraha -- Elvis -- The Ogre of Mensa -- The gully --
Kicker wanted -- The briefcase -- Jersey day -- Big Chicago -- The ghost of Mum-Mum -- The doughnut boots his reputation -- A good game.  A collection of stories about high school students from one end of the social spectrum to the other.

Cochran, Thomas, 1955-.  Roughnecks.  1st ed.  San Diego, CA :
Harcourt Brace, c1997.  Travis Cody prepares for the final game of his high school football career, a rematch with his school's chief rival.

Corman, Catherine A.  Positively ADD : Real Success Stories to
Inspire Your Dreams.  New York : Walker, 2006.  Presents
seventeen biographies of individuals who have succeeded in
spite and because of having ADD. Includes the biographies of
a Rhodes Scholar, professional soccer player, musician, and
a yogic healer.

Coy, John, 1958-.  Crackback.  1st ed.  New York : Scholastic Press, c2005.  Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Crutcher, Chris.  Athletic Shorts : Six Short Stories.  New York
: Greenwillow, 1989, 1991.  A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher. Contents: A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune.--The Pin.--The Other Pin.--Goin' Fishin'.--Telephone Man.--In the Time I Get.

Crutcher, Chris.  Chinese Handcuffs.  1st ed.  New York :
Greenwillow Books, c1989.  Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.

Crutcher, Chris.  Ironman : a Novel.  1st ed.  New York : Greenwillow, c1995.  While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

Crutcher, Chris.  Stotan!  1st ed.  New York : Greenwillow Books,
c1986.  A high school coach invites members of his swimming
team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests
their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.

Crutcher, Chris.  Whale Talk.  New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2002], c2001.  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.

Deuker, Carl.  High Heat.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.  When
sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.

Deuker, Carl.  Night Hoops.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
While trying to prove that he is good enough to play on his
high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal
with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled
classmate who lives across the street.

D'Orso, Michael. Eagle Blue : A Team, A Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Pub., 2006. Chronicles the 2004-05 season of the Fort Yukon High School basketball team. Describes the community's conflict over traditional culture and modernity and discusses the prevalent alcoholism, domestic violence, and lack of education in the community. Also explores the team's dynamic and the town's gradual eradication of tradition and heritage.

Gratz, Alan, 1972-.  Samurai Shortstop.  New York : Dial Books,
c2006.  Toyo Shimada feels trapped between his family's samurai background and modern life in 1890 Tokyo. He wrestles with his uncle's suicide and his father's teachings as well as his life at boarding school where he plays shortstop on the baseball team. Toyo finds that samurai values and baseball have more in common than it would appear.

Greenberg, Richard, 1958-.  Take Me Out : A Play.  New York :
Stage and Screen, 2002.  New York Empires star center fielder Darren Lemming announces that he is gay, sparking conflict on the team, particularly from homophobic pitcher Shane Mungitt, and inspiring Lemming's business manager to face his inner demons.

Greene, Shep.  The Boy Who Drank Too Much.  Laurel-Leaf ed.  New
York : Dell, 1980, c1979.  The efforts of his friends almost
fail to stop a lonely and isolated teenager from destroying
himself with alcohol.

Grisham, John.  Bleachers.  New York : Doubleday, c2003.  When
his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his former teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings about the man.

Hautman, Pete, 1952-.  Rash.  1st ed.  New York : Simon &
Schuster, c2006.  In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named
Bork.

Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney).  Damage.  1st ed.  New York :
HarperCollins, c2001.  Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.

Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney).  Out Of Order.  1st ed.  New
York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2003.  Popular sophomore baseball star Colt Trammel faces a personal crisis when his girlfriend dumps him, his failing grades threaten to bump him from the team, and he finds himself drawn to a new, green-haired girl at school.

Kogler, Jennifer Anne.  Ruby Tuesday.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins, 2005.  The 1988 World Series win by the Los
Angeles Dodgers sets off a chain of life-changing events for
thirteen-year-old Ruby Tuesday as she travels to Las Vegas and learns some surprising truths about her family members and their careers as gamblers and musicians.

Lipsyte, Robert.  The Brave.  New York : HarperKeypoint, 1993,
c1991.  Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.

Lipsyte, Robert.  The Chief.  1st Harper Trophy ed.  New York :
HarperTrophy, 1995, c1993.  On the verge of having a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship, nineteen-year-old Sonny Bear finds himself with conflicting loyalties when trouble erupts on his reservation over the construction of a new gambling casino.

Lipsyte, Robert.  The Contender.  New York, : Harper & Row, [1967].  A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.

Lynch, Chris.  Inexcusable.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum Books
for Young Readers, 2005.  High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.  Dairy Queen : a Novel.  Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.  After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-.  145th Street : Short Stories.  New York : Delacorte Press, c2000.  Big Joe's Funeral -- Baddest Dog in Harlem -- Fighter -- Angela's Eyes -- Streak -- Monkeyman -- Kitty and Mack: A Love Story -- Christmas Story -- Story in Three Parts -- Block Party-145th Street Style. Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem.

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-.  Slam!  New York : Scholastic Inc., 1996.  Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Peet, Mal.  Keeper.  1st U.S. ed.  Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick
Press, 2005.  In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.

Pena, Matt de la.  Ball Don't Lie.  New York : Delacorte Press, 2005.  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.

Posnanski, Joe.  The Soul Of Baseball : a Road Trip Through Buck
O'Neil's America.  New York : William Morrow, c2007.  Sports
columnist Joe Posnanski views the game of baseball through
the eyes of colorful African-American baseball hitter Buck O'Neil from the Negro Leagues.

Powell, Randy.  Dean Duffy.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995.  Eighteen-year-old Dean, a former high school baseball star whose future has been ruined by a batting slump and a bad arm, is offered a college baseball scholarship and finds himself uncertain of whether to take it.

Rud, Jeff, 1960-.  In the Paint.  Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA : Orca, 2005.  Twelve-year-old Matt Hill struggles to make the basketball team in his new school while keeping out of trouble.

Swanson, Julie A.  Going for the Record.  Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, c2004.  Seventeen-year-old
Leah's chance to make the national soccer team does not seem
so important when she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live.

Sweeney, Joyce.  Players.  1st ed.  [Delray Beach], Fla. : Winslow Press, 2000.  Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.

Tharp, Tim, 1957-.  Knights of the Hill Country.  1st ed.  New
York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2006.  In his senior year, high school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself and discovers that he might be interested in more than just football.

Tocher, Timothy.  Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me.  1st ed.
Chicago : Cricket Books, 2004.  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.

Wallace, Rich.  Playing Without the Ball : a Novel in Four Quarters.  New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.  Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.

Wallace, Rich.  Wrestling Sturbridge.  New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996.  Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.

Weaver, Will.  Farm Team.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins, c1995.  With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.