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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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"Del plays striker on his high school soccer team, the Cardinals, and they've gone almost three seasons undefeated. To Del, it's just a game, but some of the players think winning is all that matters. When an ugly tackle results in a major loss for the Cardinals against their main rival, the Rebels, things get heated between the teams. That night, one of Del's teammates has his ankle broken by an unknown assailant, leaving him unable to take part...
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Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past, great change is on the horizon. Someone is coming home after...
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In Varsity Green, Mark Yost cuts through clichés and common misconceptions to take a hard-eyed look at the current state of college athletics. He takes readers behind the scenes of the conspicuous and high-revenue business of college sports in order to dissect the enormous television revenues, merchandising rights, bowl game payoffs, sneaker contracts, and endorsement deals that often pay state university coaches more than the college president,...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"What would you do to win? Find out how others answered in this look at famous cheating scandals. Don't trust anyone in the Lies and Liars Throughout History series. Each title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world, and the truth, upside down across the ages. Readers learn how to spot a lie and confirm the truth for themselves as they look a little closer at the tales people tell. Includes considerate...
6) Recruited
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Kadeem Jones is a star quarterback for Southside High. He is thrilled when college scouts seek him out. His visit to Teller College is amazing, but then NCAA officials accuse Teller's staff of illegally recruiting top talent. Will Kadeem decide to help their investigation, even though it means the end of the good times? What will it do to his chances of playing college football?
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school, gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly...
8) Press Play
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
While making a documentary to get himself into film school, Greg accidentally captures footage of brutal and bloody hazing by the lacrosse team, and he must decide whether to release the film or keep the secret.
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Series
Sheltie volume 7
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At Applewood's pony show, Sheltie shows Melody Parker that a cheater cannot win the obstacle race.
10) Join the team!
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Sunny Day and her friends enjoy a day playing soccer, but Lacey, determined to win at any cost, decides to cheat to get her way.
11) Cheating
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A high-interest book for low-reading-level students that provides an overview of the ways people cheat and the consequences for the cheater, for those who do not cheat, and for society.
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Series
Responsible me! volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A friendly competition turns sour after Noodle cheats his way to victory. Young readers will learn a valuable lesson about the cost of cheating while enjoying a few laughs.--Publisher.
15) Desert disaster
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Robot racers volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The fourth leg of the robot races requires Jimmy and the other contestants to navigate a route through the Sahara Desert--without a navigation system.
17) Say it ain't so
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Lenny gets jealous when Mike makes the school baseball team, but together they and Other Mike stumble upon a stealing signals scandal that could go further up than anyone knows"--
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Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
American society is dominated by sports-on television, in high schools, and in colleges. Even children play in Little League and other sports. Athletes are seen as heroes. Many young people who play sports dream of becoming future superstars. This book explores these and many other issues surrounding this controversial topic.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"How do sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge? Both entertaining and thought-provoking, The Edge not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that "the spirit of sport" can survive in today's high-tech, highly professional world. Drawing on controversies straight out of the headlines, Pielke looks at doping, match fixing, fake amateurism, and other ways...
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Vampire school volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the students of St. Orlok's Elementary School for Vampires face a cheating werewolf in a game of casketball, nine-year-old Lee Price asks his friend, Boris the bat, for help.
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