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Friday Night Lights: Football Fiction for Teens
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Books about football for teen readers.
Updated September 19, 2022
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Buzz Bissinger
Paper Book
Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the...
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Inexcusable
Chris Lynch
Paper Book
Date rape--from the accused's point of view--is the subject of this "finely crafted and thought-provoking page-turner" (SLJ), a National Book Award Finalist from Printz Honor-winning author Chris Lynch. Now available in a tenth-anniversary edition. Keir Sarafian may not...
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Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders
Geoff Herbach
Paper Book
From Geoff Herbach, the award-winning author of the hit young adult novels Stupid Fast and Nothing Special, comes a tale that will resonate with fat kids, nerds, dorks, gamers, geeks and teen outcasts of all kinds--an authentically funny story for anyone who has suffered from teasing and bullying...
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Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
CD
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D.J. can't help admitting, maybe he's right. When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Stuff like why her best friend,...
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Dare Me
Megan Abbott
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as "Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad...Tense, dark, and...
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Pop
Gordon Korman
Ebook
Pop delivers suspense, humor, sports action, and a compelling look at the damage those "pop"s in football can cause Gordon Korman's books appeal to a wide range of kids and adults and can pull in even reluctant readers. Share Pop in your home or classroom; sports fans in particular won't...
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No More Dead Dogs
Gordon Korman
Ebook
From bestselling humor author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious middle school story about a boy's shenanigans to advocate for the unsung heroes of classic literature--dogs, obviously. Wallace Wallace won't lie, not even to avoid detention. And after he handed in a scorching book...
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Leverage
Joshua C. Cohen
Audiobook
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Running Loose
Chris Crutcher
Ebook
Louie Banks has it made. He's got a starting spot on the football team, good friends, and a smart, beautiful girlfriend who loves him as much as he loves her. Early in the fall, he sees all his ideas of fair play go up in smoke; by spring, what he cares about most has been...
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Football Genius
Tim Green
Paper Book
Twelve-year-old Troy White has a phenomenal gift: He can predict any football play before it happens. When his single mom gets a job with the Atlanta Falcons, Troy figures he has a chance to help his favorite team--and to get bully Jamie Renfro off his back about their losing streak. With the...
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The Walk On
John Feinstein
Paper Book
Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein kicks off a new series for middle grade featuring Alex Myers, a student athlete who tries to take on the sports establishment in his new town. Alex Myers is a quarterback, but from the first day of football practice, it's clear that that...
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