Super Sports Books
January 31st, 2010 by Kidsmomo
With the Super Bowl right around the corner, we figured we should stock up on some sports books in addition to the snack food and soda. And no, these aren’t all about football. Actually, these picks cover a range of athletics, from hockey to wrestling to synchronized swimming! (Yeah, you heard us — synchronized swimming!)
Consider these the MVPs of the sports book world (not necessarily in medal order):
Fiction:
- Out Standing In My Field by Patrick Jennings (Karen’s pick)
- Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner (Nancy’s pick)
- Million-Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica
- Baseball Card Adventures series by Dan Gutman
- There’s a Girl in my Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli
- Football Hero by Tim Green
- Summerland by Michael Chabon
- The Kid Who Only Hit Homers by Matt Christopher
- The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn
- The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
- My Thirteenth Season by Kristi Roberts
- Surfer Dog by Elizabeth Spurr
- The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane
- Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Skating Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- Skinnybones by Barbara Park
Nonfiction:
- Freeze Frame: A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics written by Sue Macy, photos by Peggy Fleming
- How Hockey Works by Keltie Thomas
- The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
- Nascar (DK Eyewitness Books) by James Buckley
- The Greatest Moments in Sports by Len Berman
- Sports Illustrated Kids Year In Sports 2009
If you’ve read any of these, send in your book review. Or send in a review of your favorite sports book!
UPDATE 2/9/10: We revealed the answer to our Sports Mystery Book Theater in the “We Are THE CHAMPIONS!” Podcast, so take a listen if you want to know the answer. Or just tune in if you want to hear about Karen’s ridiculous sports injury.