Lone Stars
When Coach Coop, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, starts exhibiting side effects from the many concussions he suffered while playing professionally, twelve-year-old wide receiver Clay Hollis becomes determined to help him get through the football season until Thanksgiving, when Coach plans to attend a ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: football stories, coaches (athletics), brain [X], football [X], juvenile fiction / sports & recreation / football, juvenile fiction / social issues / self-esteem & self-reliance, juvenile fiction / health & daily living / diseases, illnesses & injuries, texas, sports fiction [X]
Dinged
Fourteen-year-old star freshman quarterback Caleb Springer watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport, forcing Caleb to consider whether playing football, the sport of his dreams, is worth risking irreparable physical harm.
FIC
year:
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brain [X], fathers and sons, football stories, high schools, sports injuries, football [X], schools, father-son relationship, school stories, novels, sports fiction [X]