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But the weather-beaten sailboat Chance Taylor and his father call home is thirty years old and hasn’t sailed in years. One step from both homelessness and hunger, Chance worries about things other kid

When a hard ball is coming at you fast, and when it's dancing, too, every single nerve in your body is alert and ready. Your eyes are wide open, and the adrenaline is pumping. It's not a feeling you w

An intricate tapestry of loneliness, friendship, faithlessness, and betrayal weaves the story of two boys--Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson--whose lives become unexpectedly entangled during basketball sea

A mystery-thriller set against the backdrop of high school football and the criminal underworld.A reporter’s job is to find the missing pieces, and the high school journalist Mitch True is on the verg

From acclaimed sportswriter Carl Deuker comes an award winning riveting tale about a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who tries to pitch his way out of poverty and ultimately must choose between his future and his family.An ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAn ALA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers * "Even readers who don’t like baseball will be riveted to this human-interest, underdog story." ―Booklist, STARRED reviewLazarus "Laz" Weathers is heading into his senior year but instead of feeling excited about the future, his life is heading towards a dead end. With the trailer park he calls home being shut down and his brother getting mixed up with drug dealers, his only escape is baseball.But when he gets an opportunity to pitch for another school and have a chance at getting drafted to the major leagues, can he leave everything and everyone he knows behind?

For the first time ever, comes a paperback boxed set containing Gym Candy, Payback Time, Night Hoops, and Runner, four books from award-winning sportswriter Carl Deuker. From award-winning sportswrite

Moving to Seattle in the hope of pursuing a professional basketball career, high school senior Jonas befriends innocent, soft-spoken teammate Levi and risks everything when Levi confides in Jonas that

Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But whe

In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty—one strike at a time. By “a premier author of provocative Y

In his senior year of high school, late bloomer Ryan Ward has just begun to feel the magic of baseball—the thrill of catching a wicked slider, of throwing a runner out, of training hard and playing ha

When Shane HunterAs life is turned upside-down, he must learn to cope with his new environment and realize the importance of truth in his complex world that sometimes may not be as fair as he would li

With good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies away from physical contact. He also avoids provoking the star quarterback, Hunter Gate

Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. Or so it seems. But as the basketball season progresses, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined. In this story of an unlikely b

When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina. Chase knows how much he