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1) Sunny
Author
Series
Track ; 3
Language
English
Description
"Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kevin Walker transfers to Tubman High after the death of his mother, he decides to keep his painful past a secret and remain a loner to avoid the scrutiny of others. But his star turn on the track team brings him attention and friends who may betray his trust.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom. Six-grader Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. Her old friends have been changing lately--acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In eighth grade Kevin Schuler is a popular kid with a decent, if not stellar, record on the track. Yet after fate takes him off a bus that crashes and kills his fellow students, including his girlfriend, Kevin inexplicably becomes a track phenomenon. Separated from his memory and distanced from his own life, he effortlessly smashes records and gains national attention, until he finds that he can no more remain apart from himself than he can from the...
5) Death grip
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself deep in the Missouri woods on a perfect spring day. But there is nothing idyllic about her grim walk - a body has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Detective Jace Budewitz wants Angela on the scene.Terri Gibbons, the popular Forest High track star who went missing eight months ago, has been found strangled. Could a message found in Terri's shoe hold the key to catching her killer?...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The inspirational story of a high school track star who falls on hard times. A new coach puts him on the right path but his resolve is threatened as tragedy strikes and forces him to confront everything that has been holding him back.
8) Track star
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Talent and skill have made you a high school track star, but when it comes to breaking the rules of the game, will you do anything to win?
9) Boys
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Nederlands
Description
"In this beautiful and uplifting gay romance, two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives." --
10) Berlin 36
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Deutsch
Description
"In perhaps one of the most bizarre Nazi schemes to keep a Jewish athlete from succeeding in sport, Hitler's National Socialist Party finds itself at odds with the international sports community after they attempt to ban Jews from the German Olympic team. Gretel Bergmann is the best female high jumper in the world, but is relentlessly sabotaged by the Nazis as they stop at nothing to keep her from a gold medal because she is Jewish. Gretel valiantly...
Author
Series
Hana-Kimi ; 3
Publisher
VIZ
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Izumi, Nakatsu and Misuzki are hired to work at a beach chalet run by Dr. Umeda's family. But when Kagurasaka shows up with his two sisters in tow, things get personal because Tamami has a crush on Izumi too and plagues Mizuki with questions about Izumi. Then someone figures out that Mizuki is a girl ...
Author
Series
Hana-Kimi ; 15
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
To get close to her favorite athlete, Izumi Sano, Japanese-American Mizuki Ashiya moved to Japan and enrolled in an all-male high school! Now Mizuki and Sano are roommates, but can Mizuki keep up her pretense of being a boy? Unable to forget her near-kiss experience, Mizuki finds herself drawing ever closer to Sano, and not in a "roommates" way, either. The tension builds when Nakatsu asks Sano point-blank: Do you like Mizuki? Can Nakatsu and Sano's...
Author
Series
Hana-Kimi ; 17
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With the giant track meet approaching, Mizuki faces her old high-jump rival Kagurazuka and Sano is up against his brother and his father. While Sano focuses on winning, Mizuki tries to figure out a way to mend the rift in Sano's family. Meanwhile, Nakatsu is focused only on Mizuki.
Author
Series
Hana-Kimi ; 14
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Plumbing problems force the residents of Dorm 1 to move into Dorms 2 and 3, leaving Mizuki with two male roommates, one of whom introduces her to a dorm custom she could never have imagined. Plus, Dr. Umeda thinks about his past after hearing from an old friend, and Mizuki and Sano grow even closer.
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