Entering Grade Four
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SPORTS
It's A Numbers Game series by James Buckley, Jr.
Basketball
Numbers are everywhere in basketball--from the dimensions of the court to the points you can score to the digits on each player's jersey. Discover how to improve your bounce pass and chest pass with geometry and physics. Colorful graphics explain the math behind the sport, and cool photos make you feel like you're right on the court. (nonfiction)
Jake Maddox Sports Stories series by Jake Maddox
Cycling Champion
It seems like Austin's brothers win trophies at every sport there is: football, basketball, soccer. When Austin sees an ad for a Tour de France style bike race, he knows this could be his chance for a trophy too.
Kid Legends series
Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood From Sports Legends by David Stabler
Read about what inspired young people and helped them persevere to become professional athletes. (nonfiction)
Screech Owls series by Roy MacGregor
Book 1: Mystery at Lake Placid
Travis and his pals in the Screech Owl hockey team are excited to be travelling to an international peewee tournament, skating on Olympic size ice and impressing scouts in the stands.  Then a series of mishaps begins to add up to sabotage. How can the team figure out how to stop what's happening before their final game?
A Sporting Chance : How Paralympics Founder Ludwig Guttmann Saved Lives With Sports by Lori Alexander
Before World War II, having a broken spine was often a death sentence. Dr. Guttmann, a Jewish neurologist who had escaped Germany, began working with paralyzed British patients. Soon he had them up in wheelchairs and playing competitive sports. (nonfiction)
Sports Illustrated Kids: Goats series by Bruce Berglund
Baseball Goats: The Greatest Athletes of All Time 
How do you pick the best athletes of all time? You use stats, history and hunches. Do you agree with the ones chosen for this book, like Sandy Koufax, Ted Williams and Satchel Paige? Are they really the greatest?
Sports Illustrated Kids Graphic Novels
Spotlight Soccer by Ricardo Sanchez
Franco dreams of playing pro someday and was on track until he changed schools. Now his skill at being a playmaker is being trampled by ball-hogs and the new coach doesn't seem to care.
STAT (Standing Tall and Talented) series by Amar'e Stoudemire
Book 1: Home Court
Amar'e has many interests and talents, including skateboarding and schoolwork, but he needs to call on his basketball skills when a group of older boys disrespects his friends.
Three Strike Summer by Skyler Schrempp
Times are bad; the rains won't come and the family has lost their farm and had to travel to California to pick peaches. Gloria can deal with that and the smelly, dirty shack they have to live in. What she really wants, though, is to play on the secret all-boys baseball team, and neither boys, secretivive grown-ups or company rules are going to stop her.
Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream series by Hena Khan
Power Forward
Fourth grader Zayd wants to be the first Pakistani-American on the NBA. First though, he has to convince his parents that basketball is at least as important as playing violin, and he has to find a way off the D team to the Gold team to be with his friend Alex.