Young Adult Fiction - Sports & Recreation - Baseball & Softball

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearMolly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient...

Crawford "Craw" Cope has anger issues. Or so they say. When Craw is sentenced to community service for hitting his father in the head with a baseball bat, he accepts his punishment without objection, knowing he's actually lucky. If he weren't the son of...

Author: Nick BrigemanPublisher: Outskirts PressPublished: 10/03/2025Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28dISBN: 9781977285898Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorBrigeman, Nick: - Author Nick Brigeman was born in Akron, OH in 1992 and grew up in a small town near Cleveland. He is an...

A Romeo & Juliet-inspired small-town baseball romance where the son and daughter of two rival families must decide if their love is worth the risk. High school junior Eliza Crowley is known as the Princess of Fairfield, a farm town in North Carolina that...

Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms...

From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance--starring a baseball pitcher and a student umpire who are definitely not supposed to fall for one another. Now in paperback! "Sapphic sports romance perfection. Swoony and romantic, but unafraid to tackle...

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks! With a Introduction by Newbery Award winner Kwame Alexander and bonus content by Coretta Scott King Award winner Christopher Myers!Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He's...

"The Pitcher," is a classic story of baseball, the price of dreams, and the lessons of life. A mythic baseball story about a broken down World Series Pitcher is mourning over the death of his wife and an underprivileged Mexican-American boy who lives across...

From award-winning author Tommy Greenwald comes a thrilling companion novel to Game Changer that explores the growing pressures in youth sports, and the lengths some parents will go to make sure their kid comes out on top Cal Klondike's life revolves around baseball. He's...

Sizzling ambition, drama, and swoonworthy romance abound in this underdog sports story, perfect for fans of Icebreaker! When softball star Liv Rodinsky throws one ill-advised punch during the most important game of the year, she loses her scholarship to her fancy private school, her...