Football

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Football

• Books with a Football Theme

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Uncommon Finding Your Path to Significance

• By Tony Dungy

Success is uncommon, therefore not to be enjoyed
by the common man.Im looking for uncommon
people.
""It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the
lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and
the world we can change for the better." "
Tony Dungy
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Friday Night Lights

• By Buzz Bissinger

H. G. Bissinger has won the Pulitzer Prize, the
Livingston Award, the National Headliner Award,
and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel
for his reporting. He is the author of the highly
acclaimed Three Nights in August, and is a
contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He lives in
Philadelphia.
In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out
of control in good times, its murder rate
skyrockets. But every Friday night from September
to December, when the Permian High School
Panthers play football, this West Texas town
becomes a place where dreams can come true. With
frankness and compassion, Bissinger chronicles
one of the Panthers' dramatic seasons and shows
how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the
community and inspires-and sometimes shatters-the
teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms .
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Tangerine by Edward Bloor
So what if he's legally blind? Even with his
bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can
see better than most people. He can see the lies
his parents and brother live out, day after day

• Remember that, lad, if you never remember
  anything else. We all touch each other's lives,
  for better or worse. So say the things that you
  have to say to people while you still have the
  chance." Edward Bloor (London Calling)

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Gym Candy

• By Carl Deuker

Carl attended the University of California,
Berkeley during the heady days of student protest
over Vietnam. He participated in many of those
protests, but looking back is not so sure how he
feels about those days. "Yes, we students were
right about Vietnam. It was a waste. But I'm not
sure we understood much of what was happening. I
thought I knew everything back then, and I cringe
to think how little I actually knew."
Mick Johnson wanted to be the starting running
back on his football team from the moment his
father put a football into his hands at the age
of four.  Mick was raised to believe his father
was a tremendous football player who played for
the NFL, but later realizes he did not get the
full story.  He vows never to make the same
mistakes his father made.
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Bleachers

• By John Grisham

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are
so ingrained in our society we rarely stop to
think about it. I'm able to write what I
want--dark fiendish plots without fear. . . . I
can criticize the FBI, the CIA, the president and
Congress without giving it a thought.
High school All-American Neely Crenshaw was
probably the best quarterback ever to play for
the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years
have gone by since those glory days, and Neely
has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie
Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an
unbeatable football dynasty.
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Inexcusable

• By Chris Lynch

The way it looks is not the way it is," says
Keir. This statement is true in more ways than
one, as INEXCUSABLE's surprising narrative plays
out. Chris Lynch's accomplished novel is bound to
get readers thinking about whether or not they
can trust this narrator. They're also likely to
consider long and hard what it means to be the
popular guy, the "good guy," and whether those
labels excuse a lot of destructive, dangerous
behaviors.
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Knights of the Hill Country

• By Tim Tharp

This unforgettable novel is the story of a boy
whose choices will decide the kind of man he
becomes, and raises powerful questions about
sportsmanship, loyalty, and the deceptiveness of
legends.
Knights of the Hill Country went on to be named
to American Library Association's best books of
the year list and won the Oklahoma Book Award.
Numerous states have adopted the novel to their
state reading lists. The book received many
outstanding reviews, but the author's favorites
have come from teenage readers.
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Dairy Queen

• By
• Catherine Murdock

When you dont talk, theres a lot of stuff that
ends up not getting said.Stuff like why her
best friend, Amber, isnt so friendly anymore. Or
why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his
mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a big secret.
Why her college-football-star brothers wont even
call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she
tried out for the high school football team
herself. And why Brian is so, so out of her
league.
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Off- Season
I grew up in small-town Connecticut, on a tiny
farm with honeybees, two adventurous goats, and a
mess of Christmas trees. My sister claims we
didnt have a television, but we did, sometimes
only it was ancient, received exactly two
channels, and had to be turned off after 45
minutes to cool down or else the screen would go
all fuzzy.

• By Catherine Murdock

High school junior D. J. Schwenk staggers under
the weight of caring for her badly injured
brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm,
a changing relationship with her friend Brian,
and her own athletic aspirations.