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Check It Out -- Teen Literature Database
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18 book reviews found, page 1 of 4. Narrow results by selecting age range:
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Choosing Up Sides
Audience: 5th Grade - 9th Grade
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In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke Bledsoe is a talented pitcher and a left handed whiz, but his father, the town preacher, believes baseball is a game of the devil and the left side is Satan's tool. Will he fulfill his dreams or lose his family?
Awards won: ALA Best Book for Young Adults 1999, International Reading Association Children's Book Award
Date read: 7/28/2001
ISBN: 0399231854
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Dairy Queen
Audience: 7th Grade - 10th Grade
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DJ knows the meaning of hard work, after all she is a farm girl and has 3 brothers who play football. So when Jimmy Ott asks her to train her school's stuck-up rich rival quarterback, Brian , DJ bitterly teaches him the meaning of hard work. What DJ doesn't realize is that Brian has just as much to teach her. As their relationship grows, DJ begins to fall for him. But as life gets complicated DJ makes a descion that changes her life: playing football. The summer seemed so boring but turned out to teach so many lessons, and DJ learns the most important, when you don't talk there's a whole lot that ends up not getting said.
Date read: 12/23/2006
ISBN: 0618683070
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Danger Zone
Audience: 6th Grade - 9th Grade
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Jimmy Doyle is the best basketball player in his small town in Minnesota. However, he never dreamed that he would be asked to be part of the national Teen Dream Team. His trip to California and then to Europe has him wondering if he is in over his head. For once, Jimmy is part of the racial minority, and then the whole team starts getting death threats
Similar books: Slam (Myers)
Date read: 06/24/1998
ISBN: 0590485903
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Deadly Drive
Audience: 4th Grade - 8th Grade
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Casey is driven to suceed on her new basketball team, partly because her mother was a star player when she was a student at University of Iowa.
Nine years ago a hit-and-run driver killed Casey's mother and Casey suffered an injured right arm. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds the killer. Complicating matters, every year on the anniversary of her mother's death, Casey receives an anonymous envelope full of money. Is it from her mother's killer? Is the killer someone Casey actually knows?
Date read: 11/07/2005
ISBN: 0807508446
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Defending Irene
Audience: 5th Grade - 7th Grade
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With an American mom and an Italian dad, 13-year-old Irene is comfortable speaking Italian as well as English. And, she's been playing soccer -- the national sport of Italy -- as long as she can remember. When Irene's family moves to Northern Italy for one year, she should get along just fine, both in school and on the soccer field. The only problem is that teenage girls do not play soccer in the small town Irene's family moves to...and the boys are not too excited to have her join their team. Irene is used to being the star of the soccer team; will she be able to survive a year as an outsider on the soccer field?
Date read: 10/19/2004
ISBN: 1561453099
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