Entering Grade 5
Sports
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Baseball Card Adventure series by Dan Gutman
Book 11: Ted & Me Stosh travels back in time to 1941 and meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. |
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Football Genius series by Tim Green
Book 1: Football Genius Troy has a gift for predicting football plays before they happen. When his mom gets a job for a pro football team, Troy knows he can help them, if only he can get the meanest coach in the league to believe him. |
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Game Changers series by Mike Lupica
Book 1: Game Changers Ben knows he can be a great quarterback, but he has to convince the coach, and the current QB: the coach’s son. |
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A Long Pitch Home by Natalie Dias Lorenzi
After a sudden move from Pakistan, champion Cricket player Bilal must deal with a missing father, English that is not the same as the English he knows, and being really bad at baseball. |
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Soar by Joan Bauer
When baseball-loving Jeremiah finds out his new town’s championship baseball team has had a recent scandal, he sets out to get everyone back into the spirit of the game. |
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Weird Zone: Sports by Maria Birmingham
Playing football with over 200 people on a team? Chasing a giant wheel of cheese down an English hillside? Wrestling with your toes? This book contains all the funny facts about these sports and many, many more. (nonfiction) |
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Unbored Adventure: 70 Seriously Fun Activities for Kids and Their Families by Joshua Glenn
(also by this author: Unbored and Unbored Games) From camouflage techniques, survival skills, the secret history of bicycles, to games, songs, treasure hunts, and how to bake bread on a stick, this book can guide you to your next adventure! |
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A Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book by Phil Bildner
Rip and Red are best friends who share a love of basketball. They're going to need each other's support when their crazy new fifth-grade teacher also turns out to be their new basketball coach. |