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Fiction (sports themes)

All that Remains by Bruce Brooks

• Three novellas explore the effects of death on young lives. Three stories about how people react when tragedy strikes: a story about  a loss of an aunt, an "unhip" cousin, and a trio of golfers.

Extra Innings by Robert Newton Peck

• After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent traveling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.

Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus Zusak

• Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring.

Night Hoops by Carl Deuker

• While trying to prove that he is good enough to be 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.

Three clams and an Oyster by Randy Powell

• During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.