Alan Brown's Sports Literacy Blog

Key:

^ Nonfiction

*Grade levels are based on reviews from sources such as School Library Journal, Booklist, etc. They do not necessarily represent Alan’s and Abby’s views on grade level appropriateness.

Multiple Sports

Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher (Grades 9-12)

^ First Generation: Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace

Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between by Laura Silverman et al. (Grades 7-9)

   Guys Read: The Sports Pages  by John Scieszka (Grades 6-12)

Ironman by Chris Crutcher (Grades 9-12)

 ^ Let Me Play by Karen Blumenthal (Grades 4-8)

Losers Take All by David Klass (Grades 6-8)

Motion: American Sports Poems by Noah Blaustein and John Edgar Wideman

  Rhyme & Rhythm: Poems for Student Athletes edited by Sarah J. Donovan

^ Scorecasting by Tobias Moskowitz and L. John Wertheim

Shut Out by Kody Keplinger (Grades 9-12)

Soldier Athletes by Glenn Stout (Grades 4-7)

 ^ Something Like the Gods by Stephen Amidon

Sport fiction and biographies for young readers by Matt Christopher (Grades 3-7)

Sports Camp by Rich Wallace (Grades 4-6)

Summer in the City by Elizabeth Chandler (Grades 7-10)

   ^ The Best American Sports Writing 2013 by Glenn Stout and J.R. Moehringer

   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Grades 9-12)

^ Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics by Doris Pieroth

 Ultimate Sports: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults by Donald Gallo, ed. (Grades 7-12)