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Ria only cares about on fashion and makeup, but her mother insists she finds other interests. Given the choice of babysitting or joining a school team, Ria reluctantly chooses volleyball. But she discovers that learning the skills and improving her play start to make her feel good.
3) Double foul
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Camp Average volume 2
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Mack and the gang are back at Camp Average for another summer of fun, and this year they are allowing girls in. In an attempt to win a trophy the boys are pitted against the girls in a basketball game.
4) Seconds
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Determined to take the lead in cross-country running, Jake's rigorous schedule allows no time for friends, family, pizza or joking around. When he joins the Diamond Running Club, his coach helps him remember what he used to love about running in the first place.
5) Run
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Terrified of being targeted by bullies for being overweight, Lionel tries to attract as little notice as possible at school. But then Lionel discovers he's fast. He takes up running, which leads to joining a running group, and being recruited for the school track team. But being on the track team has him gaining attention, which catches the attention of the bullies he's avoiding.
7) Away games
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Camp Average volume 3
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This is definitely NOT an average summer The Camp Average crew is split in two. True to his promise, Andre is spending this year at Camp Killington, rival to Camp Average and home to Deets, baseball star and all-around shady guy. Luckily, he has a surprise waiting for him: Mack, who didn't want his best bud to suffer alone. Together, they're going to keep their heads down and blend in... even though someone seems intent on singling them out-and making...
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Eighth-grader Micah is excited to have made the B.C. junior goalball team, but he also has a hard time dealing with his degenerative eye condition. His frustration with the disease affects his relationships with his teammates and he must learn to become more of a team player and help his team win a junior tournament in Richmond, B.C.
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Shred Girls volume 1
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Shy twelve-year-old bookworm Lindsay, future superhero, spends a summer with her cousin/nemesis Phoebe learning BMX tricks, making new friends, and showing boys that girls can compete, too.
12) Jammer star
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Robin Ellis wants to be the best jammer on her roller-derby team, but success may come at a heavy cost.
13) Takedown
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Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.
14) Fly away
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Marnie is forced into a leadership role on her competitive cheerleading team, but it's harder than she imagined to keep the Soar Starlings--and herself--aloft.
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Over the course of a week, thirteen-year-old Track & Field runner, Josie Tomaselli, confronts multiple challenges with humour, confusion, fear, "lady balls," and the inspiration of her pre-race music playlist. As the big race approaches, she's missing the support of her father, who is dying of cancer. While at first she refuses to acknowledge the possibility of losing him, in the end she rallies to face the situation and find a way to say goodbye...
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In illustrated diary format, the hilarious tale of a boy who is a rugby master-not! Marcus is a math whiz who is not good at sports. But his dad, a self-help author, is convinced otherwise. He believes that Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to-with hilarious results. Flint's gentle, satiric humor and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about rugby.
19) Cheer fears
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Soon-to-be eighth graders and close friends Robert, Maryam, and Kylie are excited to be at sleepaway cheer camp this summer, even after they find out that their cabin is supposed to be haunted; ghost stories are fine, but than the pranks start, and the accusations start flying--Robert is the only one in the whole cabin who has not been pranked, so he figures that he better figure out who is responsible before he gets the blame.
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