Mike Lupica
1) Hero
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the president's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw comes a story of every football kid’s dream come true.
12-year-old Charlie is a fantasy football guru. He may be just a bench warmer for his school's football team, but when it comes to knowing and loving the game, he's first-string. He even becomes a celebrity when his podcast gets noticed by a sports...
12-year-old Charlie is a fantasy football guru. He may be just a bench warmer for his school's football team, but when it comes to knowing and loving the game, he's first-string. He even becomes a celebrity when his podcast gets noticed by a sports...
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Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
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Pedro Morales has always been content helping others look great. The epitome of a point guard, he plays the game to set up his teammates—Ned, in particular, the star forward on the receiving end of Pedro’s pinpoint passes. Pedro wants to make his father proud, and so he runs for class president. Yet doing so means going one-on-one against Ned, easily the most popular boy in school. And Pedro learns the hard way that being a good teammate...
4) Hot Hand
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
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From #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica!
It's simple. All Billy Raynor wants to do is shoot. After all, he is one of the best shooters in the league. But with his dad as his coach, and his parents newly separated, somehow everything's become complicated. His brother Ben hardly talks anymore. His mom is always traveling on business. And his dad is always on his case about not being a team player. But when...
It's simple. All Billy Raynor wants to do is shoot. After all, he is one of the best shooters in the league. But with his dad as his coach, and his parents newly separated, somehow everything's become complicated. His brother Ben hardly talks anymore. His mom is always traveling on business. And his dad is always on his case about not being a team player. But when...
5) Hero
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of one unsuspecting boy poised to follow in his superhero father’s footsteps
Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can textmessage himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero, a savior to America...
Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can textmessage himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero, a savior to America...
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English
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"Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain's beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband's closet. Though Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned--He has recently become secretive, bordering...
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Series
Zach and Zoe Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books/Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While competing in Spirit Week events at school, eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe follow clues to find Zach's missing baseball, signed by his favorite major league player.
9) Lone stars
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.
10) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
11) Last man out
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Includes an excerpt from the author's book Lone Stars.
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
13) Heavy hitters
Author
Series
Game changers volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up. Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben has known Justin for a while and they're friendly but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys." Justin is the team's best hitter but his behavior on and off the...
Author
Series
Zach and Zoe Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Someone is secretly renovating the basketball court at the local park, and Zach and Zoe are determined to find out who"--
16) Team Players
Author
Series
Home Team volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
20180403
Language
English
Description
A girl with Asperger's joins Cassie's softball team but not everyone on the team welcomes her, creating a rift between Cassie and her teammates in the final book of the Home Team series from "New York Times"-bestselling author and sports-writing legend Lupica.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival. Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie is shot and nearly killed, Sunny is dragged into the thick...
Author
Series
Zach and Zoe Mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Zach and Zoe find their recess football deflated from a hole near the laces, and set off in search of clues to discover how it happened"--
20) No slam dunk
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.