Library & Information Science,
Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
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• Student project: (w6k.html) Chris Crutcher (Sports fiction writer) by Ranee Romanoff
• Student project: (w6l.html) Sports by Kurt Keesling
(selected from Books for the Teen Age 1997, New York Public Library)
1. Iím Back! More Rare Air. by Michael Jordan. Collins, 1995. On the court, playing baseball, relaxing with his family, Jordan is captured in intimate photographs that portray the man as well as the athlete. His own words accompany this photo-biograpy that is a follow up to the popular "Rare Air."
2. Inside Edge by Christine Brennan. Scribner, 1996. Brennan, a sportswriter for the Washington Post, chronicles one year in the figure skating circuit. She introduces the athletes, the coaches and the families that sacrifice almost everything in the hope for fame and money. The sport that began quietly, but has grown into a multi-million industry is put under the spotlight just like it's graceful, energetic stars.
3. Slam! by Walter Dean Myers. Scholastic, 1966. 167-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris goes to school in the South Bronx. On the basketball court he is a star, but in the classroom, he is struggling to keep up his grades. Slam knows his future could take him all the way to the big time or leave him behind in the hard life of the inner city. Itís his move.
4. Wrestling Sturbridge by Rich Wallace. Knopf, 1996. Ben doesnít want to end up working in the cinder block factory where his father and most of the men in Sturbridge have worked for generations. But, heís only the second-best wrestler on his high schoolís team. Number One is his best friend, Al, and if Ben wants to win the state championship he will have to pin Al flat to the mat.
5. My Sergei: A Love Story. by Ekaterina Gordeeva with E.M. Smith. Warner, 1996. Together, Gordeeva and her skating partner and husband Sergei Grinkov, won four World Championships and two Olympic gold medals. In November, 1995, during a routing training session, Grinkov suffered a fatal heart attack. Here, Gordeeva tells the story that begins with the pairing of two teen-aged athletes in the former Soviet Union, and grew into a passion for skating and each other that captured world-wide admiration.
6. Necessary Roughness by Marie g. Lee. HarperCollins, 1996. Chan Junk Kim was popular when his family lived in Los Angeles. But now theyíve moved to a small town in Minnesota where nobody plays soccer and school life is less than welcoming for a Korean American. trying to fit in, Chan goes out for the football team, but his new-found excitement for this very American game conflicts with his father's Korean ways.
7. Winning Ways by Sue Macy. Henry Holt, 1996. From the early days, when women graciously enjoyed sports like golf, archery and croquet, to todayís female athletes competing as boxers, race-car drivers, and distance runners, Macy traces the story of American women in sports. The photographs collected here capture pioneers like ice skatingís Sonja Henie and contemporary superstars like Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
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