When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.

Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.

After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...

A boy learns to read the river when he goes white water rafting with his dad.

With the big game coming up, Mo Jackson, the shortest member of the basketball team, is determined to learn how to pass the ball in time to help his team win.

When softball star Liv Rodinsky throws one ill-advised punch during the most important game of the year, she loses her scholarship to her fancy private school, her boyfriend, and her teammates all in one fell swoop. Forced to transfer to the nearest public school, Northland, Liv tries its coach she deserves a spot on the softball team. Enter Grey, the injured star quarterback with a foolproof plan: if Liv joins the football team as his temporary replacement,...

Four starred reviews!
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection
A Horn Book Magazine Best Book of 2022

"Told in a voice that is so real it reeks of filched peaches, this book is a home run." —Amy Sarig King, Printz Award–winning author of Dig and The Year We Fell from Space

Sandlot meets Esperanza Rising in this "vividly rendered, emotionally vulnerable"...

Twelve-year-old TURBO racer Mace faces hard choices when a sinister threat menaces not only his sport, but the entire world.

As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport, softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.

Abby is worried her unmasked blackmailer will expose the one secret she cannot risk getting out, and to make matters worse, the drama is affecting her performance on Beau, putting her place on the team in jeopardy.