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Half-Court Trap
A Black teen learns to deal with stress, anger, rivalry and body image issues in the context of basketball.
$8.99, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 710L
Paddle Battle
A teen boy learns that trusting his team and trying his best helps him accept change and adapt to it.
$8.99, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: HL580L
Ace of Hearts
Alvin is ready for romance, but he may never be ready for more$8.99, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 4Lexile Reading Level: 800L
The Comeback
Soccer is the best medicine$8.99, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 2Lexile Reading Level: HL540L
Golden Game
Abbas and his soccer team of fellow refugees are playing in a big tournament. When a traffic accident triggers crippling flashbacks to war-torn Syria, Abbas perseveres to support his teammates through the competition.$8.99, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 660L
Tournament Fugee
Unable to concentrate on his game because of the traumas he experienced in Syria, Victor, captain of a soccer team of refugee kids, discovers how to offer real leadership to his team during a national competition.$8.99, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 660L
Run for Your Life
Cross-country runner Chris trains with a Native kid who has been displaced by a fire in the community and learns what it's like to be a refugee and literally run for your life.$27.99, HardcoverInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 540L
Curve Ball
Tom finds himself on a plane to Winnipeg, where he'll spend the summer with an uncle he doesn't even know and on a baseball team where's he's out of his depth$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3
Trapped
There's a thief on Jane's soccer team which makes morale low and tensions run high.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 600L
Rink Rivals
When the Selkirk family moves from their remote Cree community to Calgary, life is turned upside down for twin brothers Evan and Bryn. When the boys start lying to new friends to win approval, they have to rely on each other to gain the courage to set things right.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 10-13Reading level: Grade 4Lexile Reading Level: 750L
Falling Star
The Brunswick Valley kids are on the road. In order to secure the top spot in the league, the gang is playing a series of away-games at schools around the province.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 9-13Reading level: Grade 5Lexile Reading Level: 870L
Shut-Out!
David wants to play soccer more than anything. But Coach Prescott has his own ideas about how to win: Play the best boys, bench the rest.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 9-13Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: 440L
Scarred
Becky was once a promising young skating star, but these days she feels numb, disconnected, and very lonely. The only way she knows to relieve pressure is to cut herself.
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Dream Racer
Zoë's caught the racing bug. She thinks she might even have the stuff to become a racecar engineer one day. But Zoë's mother has another dream for her daughter, and it's called "Zoë Kendall, M.D."
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
Strange Beauty
There are some things a teen can take for granted, or so Penny thinks. Beautiful girls get all the breaks. An eccentric old woman is going to be the target of every kid in the 'hood. But what if things are not all they seem?
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 3
The Ginger Princess
Mimi is horrified when the neighbourhood bully kidnaps a cat for what he darkly calls "an experiment." But what can a small nine-year-old do against a big, tough, eleven-year-old like Ricky?$7.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 6-10Reading level: Grade 4
Ceiling Stars
Ceiling Stars is a moving story about the strength and limits of friendship in the presence of mental illness.
$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4
A Terrible Secret
Something is troubling Maggie Alexander. It's something she doesn't want to think about, doesn't want to explain.$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 5
Lightning Rider
January Fournier, a sixteen-year-old Métis girl, learns her brother is in intensive care after a motorcycle crash. When she arrives at the hospital, the police tell her the crashed bike was stolen, and her brother is now the prime suspect in a seri$9.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 14-18Reading level: Grade 4