The Sports Pages

• Book ID: 126196215
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 88 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

A lineman with something to proveA vendetta against a baseball legendThe rise of a real-life NHL all-starThe luckiest grapefruit in sports historyOpen up The Sports Pages, the third volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading, and you're in for all of this and more. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are ten stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field. Compiled by kid-lit all-star Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a thrilling collection of brand-new short stories from some of your favorite authors and athletes.

Contents

Before We Begin … by JON SCIESZKA
How I Won the World Series by DAN GUTMAN
Find Your Fire by TIM GREEN
Max Swings for the Fences by ANNE URSU
Against All Odds by DUSTIN BROWN
The Distance by JACQUELINE WOODSON
The Meat Grinder by CHRIS CRUTCHER
The Choice by JAMES BROWN
Choke by JOSEPH BRUCHAC
The Trophy by GORDON KORMAN
I Will Destroy You, Derek Jeter by CHRIS RYLANDER
About Guys Read
About the Authors

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