Tommy Greenwald
1) Rivals
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season. Told through flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews.
2) Game changer
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Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery--and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this an inevitable result of playing a violent sport, or was something more sinister happening on the field that day? Told in an innovative, multimedia format combining dialogue, texts, newspaper...
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Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two shelter dogs await adoption in this early reader story about friendship, family, and home. Moose and Bear are two scrappy shelter dogs patiently waiting for the right owner to adopt them. They meet, become friends, and one day a Cathy decides to take them both home. Despite their luck, they must face the challenges of settling into their new home. Along the way, they learn about each other, and their friendship deepens. Told with humor and heart,...
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Series
Good sports league volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Ben Cutler loves soccer, and he like to have fun while playing too, but when he joins a travel team that takes winning very seriously, he starts to wonder if there is more to the game than just getting a W.
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Series
Good sports league volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Annabella Donatello loves softball and performing so she is thrilled when she gets cast in the school play, on top of being pitcher of her softball team, but when practice conflicts with opening night of the show she hatches a plan putting her softball and acting skills to the test.
6) Dinged
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Caleb Springer is the up-and-coming star freshman quarterback on the high school football team, which isn't a surprise considering his dad, Sammy Springer, was an NFL superstar and is now the town celebrity. College scouts are already snooping around Caleb, and his future seems set. But just as Caleb's glory days begin, his dad starts to change. He's forgetting things and getting angry at random times. Caleb is forced to confront a bleak possibility:...
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Series
Crime biters! volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
No one fights crime harder than the Crimebiters gang ... and of course my crime-fighting dog, Abby. Together, we've fought against corruption in the world of elementary school sports and even stopped a neighborhood crime ring! But now a copy of the final math test has been stolen, AND our local animal shelter (where I found Abby!) is in danger of closing. As if that weren't enough, Daisy has introduced her new kitten, Purrkins, into the Crimebiters...
8) Hooked
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A boy and his dad discover all they have in common on a fishing trip in this sweet picture book about father-son bonding.
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Series
Crime biters! volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When vampire fiction writer Elroy Evans comes to town for the COM-MIX convention, Jimmy Bishop decides he must find out if his crime-fighting dog, Abby, is really a vampire.