A former figure skater joins a hockey team where he shares his affection for baking pie with the other players but keeps his affection for his teammate to himself (mostly).
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Teen books about queer yearning (and also sports). #Teen #Tigard #WCCLS
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- Mickey represents the third generation in his family to play hockey for Hartland University, but he's not sure he wants to. Further complicating things is his crush on his supposed rival.
- When the captain's prank means trouble for the whole squad, Zack's left with no choice but to take one for his soccer team and cover for him. Now he's trading parties and beach days for community service at a seaside conservation center. But thanks…
- After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault), Mara is dying to find a new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. A lifelong football…
- A high school field hockey star must choose between her love of the game and her new, distractingly beautiful rival.
- When the former best friends-turned-rivals end up on the same cross-country team three years after one ghosted the other, everything is a competition... and a reminder of old feelings, as well as blossoming new ones.
- After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident…
- Seventeen-year-old Valentina jeopardizes her future when she gets into an altercation with her rival, Leticia, during a soccer game, so the two girls must co-captain a soccer team to redeem themselves. What starts as a shaky alliance of necessity…
- In an emotional story about coming to terms with grief and guilt and allowing yourself to open up to others to heal, Daya joins a roller derby team because she likes to experience the kind of pain that she can control. However, her teammates teach…
- Spencer has no trouble passing as cis gender at his new school and on his new soccer team, but when a discriminatory law forces Spencer's coach to bench him after he discovers the "F" on Spencer's birth certificate, Spencer has to make a choice:…
- Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won't let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots, Jeremy decides to make some noise...by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas, for the…
- Charlie's adamant that she left that life behind her athletic days when she started drama school...until she's won over by the charming basketball team captain, Liv, and the ragtag crew she's managed to assemble.
- An openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty queen with a penchant for fixing up old cars.
- Nicholas is thrust into a cut-throat world of fencing and finds himself facing not only his golden-boy half-brother, but the unbeatable, mysterious Seiji Katayama... Through clashes, rivalries, and romance between teammates, Nicholas and the boys of…
- Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. She rekindles a friendship with a squad-mate and discovers there…
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