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With 128 athletes competing in dozens of matches for millions in prize money, you expect drama. You expect blistering serves, smashed returns, and sliced shots that kiss the line. You do not expect kidnapping.

A hilarious story of three outfielders, one crazy, one cranky, and one able to move like the wind. Their potential to win ball games is phenomenal...if only their coach could get them under control!

There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T.J. is convinced that a varsity letter jacket - exclusive, revered, the symbol (as far as T.J. is concerned) of all that is screwed up at Cutter High - will also be an effective tool.

Pinned follows Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane, two high school seniors, as they embark on the most important winter of their lives in a quest for the New Jersey state high school wrestling championship.

Stupid Fast is playwright Geoff Herbach’s first book for young adults. No one’s more shocked than shy 15-year-old Felton Reinstein himself when he undergoes a tremendous growth spurt. After dusting the football jocks in a race, Felton marvels at his new athletic ability. Everything isn’t looking up, however. Felton must also come to grips with his mother’s sudden depression and his bratty younger brother. And then Felton learns a shocking secret about his past that helps put things in perspective.

Lauren is a junior high student with some challenges in her life. In her spare time, she plays volleyball on a Rec League team, but at the start of the season, she doesn't know a single person on the team. Even worse, she's far from a pro, shorter than the rest of the team and struggling to serve the ball over the net most of the time. Back home, she's given a difficult time by her neighbor because she doesn't attend a public school.

These two two thrilling, classic baseball stories written by the legendary Zane Grey are read with a respectful nod to the play-callers of a bygone era. The story "The Red-Headed Outfield" tells the hilarious story of three unique outfielders and the coach who has to deal with their wild ways. The touching tale of "Old Well Well" recounts the last days of a legendary baseball fan and his final wish to watch his nephew play in the big leagues.

When self-proclaimed geek girl Bethany Reynolds becomes the newest member of the varsity cheerleading squad, she realizes that there's one thing worse than blending into the lockers: getting noticed. Who knew cheerleading was so hard? Well, at least there's a manual, The Prairie Stone High Varsity Cheerleading Guide. Too bad it doesn't cover any of the really tough questions. Like, how do you maintain some semblance of dignity while wearing an insanely short skirt?

Kyle Saint-Claire is everything Jonny Fehey wishes to be: A star on the soccer field, a straight-A student, and king of Millburn High's social ladder. Jonny unhappily accepts his position on a lesser rung, until fate steps in and Jonny scores the go-ahead goal in the county soccer championships...and it looks like he will finally make it into the popular crowd. But at the victory party, a classmate is raped and Jonny's world begins to unravel.

Pichu is the best soccer player anyone in the little Mexican town of Los Barriles has ever seen. When a vacationing American soccer coach sees the teenager score a gravity-defying goal in a local game, he offers Pichu a scholarship to pay for the University of San Francisco's underdog team. Pichu leaves his family and the security of his idyllic fishing village and finds himself in a jarringly different environment.

"One day I’m going to play for the U.S. Women’s National Team." That’s what Flora Dupre promised her mom, before her mom died of cancer. Flora and her mom had created a place called Soccerland, an escape world where they went and just talked soccer. And now Flora’s dream of playing for the U.S.A. might be coming true. Flora’s received the invitation of a lifetime: the chance to try out for the Under-15 U.S. Girls’ Soccer Team, an opportunity that could put Flora on the road to making her dream a reality and reaching the real "Soccerland".

Running back Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking in to the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport. It requires power, grace, speed, quickness, and knowledge of the game. It takes luck, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat. What elite athlete wouldn’t look for an edge? A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster?

In the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees 17-year-old Mickey Tussler throwing apples into a barrel, he knows he has found the next pitching phenom. But not everyone is so hopeful. Mickey’s autism - a disorder still not truly understood even today - has alienated the boy from the world, and he is berated by other players and fans. Mickey faces immense trials in the harsh and competitive world of baseball while coping with the challenges inherent to his disorder.

Once upon a time, Hudson knew exactly what her future looked like. Then a betrayal changed her life and knocked her dreams to the ground. Now she's a girl who doesn't believe in second chances, a girl who stays under the radar by baking cupcakes at her mom's diner and obsessing over what might have been. So when things start looking up and she has another shot at her dreams, Hudson is equal parts hopeful and terrified. Of course, this is also the moment a cute, sweet guy walks into her life - and starts serving up some seriously mixed signals. She's got a lot on her plate, and for a girl who's been burned before, risking it all is easier said than done.

Best-selling sportswriter and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another sports mystery featuring Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson—this one set at the summer Olympics in London. In this book, Susan Carol isn't a reporter—she's an Olympian, competing as a swimmer at her first Olympic games. Stevie is both proud and envious of her athletic prowess. And he's worried by the agents and sponsors and media all wanting to get up close and personal with Susan Carol.

Spannende Fortsetzung der Dreililien-Reihe! Ein Urlaub in der Toskana - das wär`s! Nell und ihr Freund Jörn beginnen mit den Planungen für die Osterferien. Pferdepfleger Helge geht es unterdessen immer schlechter. Seine Freundin hat per Brief mit ihm Schluss gemacht. Von Liebeskummer geplagt fährt Helge für eine letzte Aussprache nach Passau - eine Reise, von der er nicht mehr nach Dreililien zurückkehren wird. Mit dem Umzug aufs Land ändert sich Nells Leben komplett: Neue Umgebung, neue Freunde, neue Liebe.

Spannende Fortsetzung der beliebten Dreililien-Pferdebuchreihe! Turbulente Zeiten auf Dreililien: Zwischen Matty und Maja krieselt es gewaltig. Grund ist Hannes, der seine Ferien auf Dreililien verbringt und sich in Maja verliebt hat. Aber werden sich Matty und Maja wirklich trennen? Auch das Glück von Nell und Jörn wird überschattet. Nach einem Autounfall schwebt Jörn in Lebensgefahr. Für Nell beginnt eine schwere Zeit, in der sie erkennt, worauf es im Leben wirklich ankommt. Mit dem Umzug aufs Land ändert sich Nells Leben komplett: Neue Umgebung, neue Freunde, neue Liebe.

Spannende Fortsetzung der Dreililien-Pferdebuchreihe! Für Nell und ihre Pferdefreunde kommt es knüppeldick: Auf dem Reiterhof Dreililien bricht eine Pferdeseuche aus und drei Jungpferde, darunter auch Nells Lieblingsfohlen, müssen eingeschläfert werden. Trost findet die 16-Jährige zunächst bei ihrem Freund Jörn, der im Krankenhaus seinen Zivildienst macht. Doch irgendwie hat er sich in letzter Zeit verändert, findet Nell. Ob ein anderes Mädchen dahinter steckt? Dann kommt es zum Streit zwischen den beiden und Nell muss sich entscheiden.

Neue Abenteuer warten auf Nell: Ihr Freund Jörn verlässt den Reiterhof und beginnt mit dem Zivildienst. Helge, der neue Pferdepfleger, ist so gar nicht Nells Typ. Ständig sucht er Streit und ist beleidigt. Was ist nur mit ihm los? Hat er ein Geheimnis? Und warum hat er eine Straftat begangen? Zusammen mit ihren Freunden begibt sich Nell auf Spurensuche in Helges Vergangenheit und findet bald einiges heraus... Mit dem Umzug aufs Land ändert sich Nells Leben komplett: Neue Umgebung, neue Freunde, neue Liebe.

Neues Pferdeabenteuer von Nell und ihren Freunden vom Reiterhof Dreililien! Auf Nell und ihre Freunde wartet ein Winter voller Abenteuer: Zum ersten Mal nach langer Zeit wird auf Dreililien wieder ein Fohlen geboren. Matty verliebt sich in Maja, die auf Dreililien ihre Ferien verbringt. Nell plant zu ihrem 16. Geburtstag eine riesige Party, zu der natürlich auch ihr Freund Jörn eingeladen ist. Doch dann kommt es zum Streit zwischen den beiden und es herrscht Funkstille. Werden sich Jörn und Nell noch rechtzeitig zur Party wieder vertragen?