Sports in Fiction

Authors to look for

Matt Christopher, Chris Crutcher, Thomas J. Dygard, Robert Lipsyte

Titles to try

Bloor, Edward        Tangerine
Brooks, Bruce        The Moves Make the Man, What Hearts
Coleman, Evelyn     Born in Sin
Crutcher, Chris        Chinese Handcuffs, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Ironman, Running Loose, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whalewatch
Deuker, Carl        Night Hoops, Painting the Black
Duder, Tessa        In Lane Three, Alex Archer
Dygard, Thomas J.    Forward Pass, Game Plan,  The Rebounder, Running Wild,
Garwood, Julie        A Girl Named Sumer
Johnson, Scott        Safe at Second
Kinsella, W.P.        Shoeless Joe
Klass, David        Danger Zone
Korman, Gordon        No More Dead Dogs, Toilet Paper Tigers,
Levy, Marilyn        Run For Your Life
Lipsyte, Robert        The Brave, The Chief, The Contender       
Lynch, Chris        Gold Dust,  Iceman
Myers, Walter Dean    Hoops,  Slam!
Powell, Randy      Three Clams and an Oyster,  The Whistling Toilets
Ritter, John H.        Choosing Up Sides
Soto, Gary        Taking Sides
Spinelli, Jerry        There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock
Strasser, Todd        How I Changed My Life
Weaver, Will        Farm Team, Hard Ball, Striking Out
Wells, Rosemary        When No One Was Looking
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann    Name Me Nobody