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"Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the big game, one of Kit's players tells a ghost...
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Series
Big Nate volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Shoyo Hinata isn't a large guy, but he's got huge ambitions: to become the next big thing in high school volleyball. Unfortunately, his junior high team was trashed in their first and only match. But now that he's enrolled in a high school with a top volleyball program, things are going to be different. There's just one problem: Tobio Kageyama, whose team beat Hinata's and is already considered a star player, is attending the same school.
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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Washington DC isn't celebrated for basketball. But the Washington area stands second to none in its contributions to the game. Countless figures who have had a significant impact on the sport over the years have roots in the region, including E.B. Henderson, the first African-American certified to teach physical education in public schools in the United States and Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to take the court in an actual NBA game. The...
6) Hoops
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games...
7) Gibsonburg
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Gibsonburg is based on the true story of the only high school baseball team to win a state championship with a losing record. The team's first year coach helped guide them from a 6-17 regular season to 8 post season victories and the state title. This magical, coming of age film deals not only with baseball, but the trials, tribulations, romances and mysteries that faced the teens along the way.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When the first string quarterback injures himself, the second string player reluctantly steps in and is forced to deal with the expectations of his win-at-all-costs coach, his disapproving girlfriend, a gorgeous cheerleader, and an entire football-crazed community.
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Fergus and Zeke volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's classroom. From science experiments to art projects, they do everything the students do. But on Field Day, none of the events are the right size for the small mice -- the limbo is too easy, the high jump is too hard, and kickball is absolutely terrifying! So Fergus and Zeke create their own Field Day Challenge, with mouse-size tug-of-war, acorn throwing, and Hula-Hooping. After all the fun...
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Inter-High match between Karasuno and Aoba Johsai continues. Karasuno has dragged the game into a third set and is struggling to keep up their momentum. In a desperate move, Coach Ukai decides to bring out Tadashi Yamaguchi as a pinch server! Could this be the push Karasuno needs to keep the team's hopes alive and beat Aoba Johsai?"--Back cover.
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Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Shoyo Hinata is out to prove that in volleyball you don't need to be tall to fly! Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? The fourth set of the Miyagi Prefecture qualifier round finals is quite the nail-biter! Karasuno's back...
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Series
Anne happy volume 8
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Tennomifune Academy's Sports Day continues, and Hibari is in the Sports Bingo Special Race along with her friends! But when it's the disaster-prone students of the Happiness Class against the top talents of the athletics program, is there any hope of avoiding a shutout-especially when some unexpected trouble comes rolling their way?"--pg.4 of cover.
Author
Series
Anne happy volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's time for the annual Sports Day at Tennomifune Academy! But between Hibiki's terrible sense of direction, Botan's frail body, and Anne's perpetual magnetism for misfortune, the Happiness Class's chances of winning are slim. What's more, Kodaira-sensei has a surprise in store for her students--one that will turn the whole event upside down!
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of Shoyo Hinata, Karasuno, and the rest of the volleyball players as they step up to the challenge of matches against Shiratorizawa and super ace Ushijima, while managing their lives both on the court and off.
16) Swing
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English
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"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to--and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since he saw the legendary player known as 'the Little Giant' compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?... After graduating high school, Hinata books it all the way to Brazil to learn how to play beach volleyball and improve his control and strength. While there, his efforts earn him...
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