Fiction+-+Sports

=// New Fiction Books at Cal Young ~ 2009-2010 //=

//** Sports **//
FIC Coc Cochrane, Mick //**The Girl Who Threw Butterflies**// 2009. Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.

FIC Fei Feinstein, John 2009. While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
 * Change-up: Mystery at the World Series**

FIC Gre Green, Tim //**Baseball Great**// 2009. All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.

FIC Gre Green, Tim //**Football Champ**// 2009. Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football plays proves a powerful secret weapon for the Atlanta Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects something is going on and sets out to shred the reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.

FIC Kor Korman, Gordon //**Pop**// 2009. Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.

FIC Mac Mackel, Kathryn //**Boost**// 2008. Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.

FIC Toc Tocher, Timothy 2009. In 1920, sixteen-year-old Hank finds his loyalties divided when he is assigned to care for the Giants' mascot, a wildcat named Bill Pennant, as well as keep an eye on Babe Ruth in Ruth's first season with the New York Yankees.
 * //Bill Pennant, Babe Ruth, and Me//**

FIC Wea Weaver, Will 2008. In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
 * //Saturday Night Dirt//**

FIC Wea Weaver, Will 2009. Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
 * //Super Stock Rookie//**