Títulos en Ficción deportiva

In starred reviews, Booklist has described Gerber's novels as "highly empathetic" and "truly inspiring" - Taking Up Space promises to be a realistic and compelling story about overcoming struggles with body image and learning that true self-esteem comes from within.

While camping near Indian Creek, Matt and his best friend, Parker, get up early to see if they can spot a blue heron. Instead, they find the body of a dead man floating in the clear water. Parker is sure that George Evans, the smooth-talking local antiques dealer, must somehow be connected to the dead man. Matt isn’t so sure - but then, on Halloween night, while snooping around Evans’s antique shop, the boys make another shocking discovery that puts their own lives in danger. There are murderous grownups who would do anything to keep what the boys found in the shop a secret....

Città nuova, scuola nuova, amici nuovi: per Ricky, appena trasferitosi con la sua famiglia a Rimini, non sarà facile abituarsi a tutti questi cambiamenti! Per fortuna Angelica e Pistone gli fanno scoprire uno sport irresistibile, che diventa subito la sua passione: le minimoto. Suo padre, però, ex campione di motociclismo, non vuole assolutamente che Ricky monti in sella.

Filippo ha quattordici anni e abita a Scampia, dove la vita gli dà una sola possibilità: entrare nel Sistema, la camorra. Un pomeriggio, però, suo zio gli chiede di accompagnarlo alla palestra di judo di Gianni Maddaloni. Con il tempo, il judo gli insegna a guardare le cose in modo nuovo, e presto il ragazzo dovrà scegliere tra un destino segnato dal clan di Toni Hollywood e la speranza di una nuova vita di quello dei Maddaloni. Con la prefazione di Gianni Maddaloni.

À l'arrivée des vacances d'hiver, toute la gang des tuques se retrouvent pour un "talent show". François les Lunettes est sur le point de gagner comme chaque année puisqu'il a conçu la meilleure luge au monde. Or c'est Zac le nouveau qui a gagné le concours. La luge de François s'est désintégrée devant tous au moment de sa prestation. Quelle humiliation ? Comment est-ce possible ? A-t-il été victime de sabotage ? Aidé de ses amis, il décide de faire la lumière sur ce mystère et de lancer un défi au nouveau, mais à quel prix !

Je viens d'apprendre qu'on déménage. Au moment où je suis au sommet de ma carrière de joueur de soccer! Tu imagines? Je dois laisser tomber mon équipe et recommencer à zéro... Et tu sais comment s'appelle mon futur village? BALLON! Hé oui! Mes parents trouvent que c'est parfait pour un mordu de soccer comme moi. Selon eux, c'est un signe que ce village est fait pour moi. Parce qu'à Ballon, tout le monde doit jouer au soccer, non? Moi, je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais j'ai un mauvais pressentiment....

Vous trouverez ici un processus concret, une approche personnalisée, un coaching et un accompagnement pour vous permettre de vous réaliser pleinement en tant qu’être humain. Ce guide pratique vous propose un cycle initiatique innovateur d’éveil de la cons

Un mois s'est écoulé depuis la rentrée scolaire, et Billie peut maintenant rejoindre sa classe Multisports artistiques. Elle a tellement hâte! Cette fois, c'est sur la glace que les entraînements auront lieu puisqu'elle apprendra le patin. Enfin...c'est ce qui était prévu, jusqu'à ce qu'un événement vienne tout gâcher. Qui a bien pu vandaliser l'aréna? Et dans quel but? Sans patinoire pour s'entraîner, Billie et ses amis pourront-ils quand même participer au spectacle d'Halloween?

Twelve-year-old Trish can solve tough math problems and throw a mean fastball. But because of her mom’s new job, she’s now facing a summer trying to make friends all over again in a new town. That isn’t an easy thing to do. But at her first baseball practice, Trish realizes one of her teammates is Ben, the sixth-grade math prodigy she beat in the spring Math Puzzler Championships. When a mysterious booklet of math puzzles claiming to reveal the “ultimate answer” arrives in her mailbox, Trish and Ben start to get closer and solve the puzzles together.

In a near-future society, gaming is everything! Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities and kids begin training as young hopefuls aspiring for the big leagues. Twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players alike. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one know who she is. Gaming is still a boy's club, and to protect herself against trolls, she games as the mysterious TheRuiNar.

Cole just wants to play football...but he can't even get off the bench! Seventh-grade running back Cole Patterson is sure he could make big plays for the Oak Valley Middle School Mustangs, but the coach won’t even put him into the game - and the coach is his dad! Now star linebacker Jack Riley is saying Cole wouldn’t even be on the team if his dad wasn’t the coach. When Cole finally gets his chance to prove Jack wrong, will he take it? Or will he do what’s best for the team?

For young baseball fans and dog lovers, Marley's here to play! Marley can't wait for his first trip to the ballpark. He is ready to cheer for the home team. But is the home team ready for Marley? In this story about Marley’s first visit to a baseball game, Marley not only roots for the home...

The heart-lifting, heartbreaking story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller. In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it...

Tre børn forsvinder sporløst, da de sammen med deres klasse er på udflugt. Politiet prøver at finde dem. Militæret sættes ind. Til lands, til vands og fra luften finkæmmes området, men de tre er som sunket i jorden. Men mens den forgæves eftersøgning er i gang oplever de forsvundne børn ting, som alle andre børn kun kan drømme om. Om de forsvundne bliver fundet - og hvordan - ja, det kan være svært at svare på. Ulf Nilsson (f. 1948) er en svensk børne- og ungdomsbogsforfatter. Han har udgivet over 100 bøger og har modtaget en lang række priser for sit forfatterskab - blandt andet August

Violet's camping out too, but her friends don't want Arthur around. So Arthur decidesto collect slimy things he knows Violet wouldn't like. But he doesn't count on slippery rocks and swooping bats, or hunger pangs. Then he smells hot dogs roasting over a warm fire...

Fans of the ingenious little monkey will not be disappointed as he embarks on a wild series of adventures in a traveling circus.

The year is 1899, and the Travelin' Nine are crisscrossing the good ol' U.S. of A., raising money to pay off the Payne family's big-league debt! As the team heads into the River City, Griffith is beginning to realize that there's more at risk than meets the eye, something beyond the need to...

Ben’s never been this unhappy. His parents got divorced, and he moved to a small town where he doesn’t fit in. He has no friends. Then, he meets a beautiful but suspicious black horse. Panther is even more troubled than Ben. And unless Ben can convince Panther to trust people again, the horse’s sorrow may cost him his life.

Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep - one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all adult in his life and navigate the butler's notions of decorum. And ultimately, when his burden of grief and anger from the past can no longer be ignored, Carter learns that a burden becomes lighter when it is shared.

When Josh Alexander and his friend Jimmy embarked on a scuba diving vacation in the Bahamas, they knew they were in for the adventure of a lifetime. Sailing aboard the Sea Explorer, many amazing sights and exciting times were in store for them. What they couldn't know was that the ocean held not only a beautiful alien world of wonder but the ominous reality of natural forces at work, moving the dive boat towards its dangerous destiny.