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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Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
Before he was Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight champion boxer, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. This book tells the story of his life up to age seventeen, in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. |
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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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It's A Numbers Game series by James Buckley, Jr.
Soccer Read about soccer greats from all over the world racking up points, championships, and even Olympic medals. Learn how goalies use geometry to guard the net and check out cool graphics that show the probability that a goalie will be able to stop a penalty kick. Colorful graphics explain the math behind the sport, and cool photos make you feel like you're right on the field. (nonfiction) |
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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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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! (nonfiction) |
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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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Who Got Game? Baseball: Amazing but True Stories! by Derrick Barnes
Did you know that teenage girl Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig? Or that the longest professional game in baseball history lasted more than eight hours? Or how about Sadaharu Oh, the Japanese ballplayer who has more career home runs than any American pro? Find out about these and more fun facts about baseball. (nonfiction) |
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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. |