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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When Zach, a white boy from Philly, moves to a racially divided town, he befriends Black siblings Capri and Justin, but when the police murder one of their friends, the town erupts into an all-out war, with Capri, Justin, and Zach caught in the middle.
6) Nightstruck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Philadelphia, Becket, the daughter of bickering divorced parents, is an ordinary teenage girl, but that all changes one night when she tries to save an innocent life and is tricked into allowing a dark magic into her world that only comes out at night.
7) Back spin
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 4
Description
A boy is missing and presumed kidnapped. The boy's mother is golf superstar Linda Coldren's--and Myron Bolitar's client. Meanwhile, Linda's husband is trying to stage a comeback at the U. S. Open, only to be found dead in a sand trap. The family skeletons are coming out of the closet and Myron discovers just how deadly the game of golf can be.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Set in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, this middle-grade historical novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy and his best friend as they attempt to stop a wall from being built at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, that would block the view of the baseball field from their rooftops. In 1930s Philadelphia, twelve-year-old Jimmy Frank and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia...
9) Polo cowboy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet--just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia's urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, where the players are rich, white, and stuck-up--all except Ruthie, the team's first and only girl, who's determined to show the others she can beat them at their own game. As Cole...
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