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Touchdown: Teen Fiction about Football
Are you a football fan? Take yourself into the world of football with one of these novels.
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Green, Tim
Football Genius
Despite his athletic ability and preternatural gift for predicting the next play, Troy spends all his time
warming the bench. When a player for the Atlanta Falcons notices his gift, things begin to look up.
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Hautman, Pete
Rash
In a futuristic society, anything dangerous is illegal. When Bo Marsten is accused of spreading a rash through
his school, he's sentenced to manual labor at a pizza factory/detention center -- but his sentence can be
reduced if he joins the (illegal) football team.
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Jenkins, A.M.
Damage
High school senior Austin Reid is a star of the high school football team and dates the prettiest girl in
the school. Everything seems to be going great for him...so why is he suffering from depression?
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Korman, Gordon
No More Dead Dogs
For expressing his true views of "Old Shep, My Pal, " eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace earns a
detention that takes him off the team and plunks him in the auditorium, where his English teacher is
directing a theatrical version of "Old Shep, My Pal."
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Lee, Marie G.
Necessary Roughness
When Chan Kim's family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota, he finds himself the only Asian-American
kid at school. Desperate to fit in, he throws himself into the only game in town: football.
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Lipsyte, Robert
Raider's Night
For the Nearmont High School football team, winning is the only option -- even if it means looking the other
way when a team-mate assaults another player.
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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Dairy Queen
D.J. Schwenk has spent her life helping her brothers train for football. But after she spends the summer helping
a rival school's quarterback train, D.J. decides that maybe she should be the one on the field.
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Tharp, Tim
Knights of the Hill Country
Nobody expects Hampton Green to be anything but a great football player. When he begins to find out who he is
off the field, no one is more surprised then he is.
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List created August, 2007.
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