Best teen & young adult sports fiction books according to redditors

1. Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher -- or really, almost anything by him. Good, rich characters, facing adversity. He was a family therapist and his writing feels authentic while touching on real issues.
   
   
2. Though everyone talks (rightfully) about The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (bonus: movie coming out, starring the girl from Divergent), Paper Towns is pretty phenomenal, well developed, current, etc. For new fiction, John Green is doing about as good a job as anyone managing the YA / Adult transition, introducing tough topics with good - not intimidating - writing.
   
   
3. Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen is short but an amazing look at war from a young kid's perspective. A good compliment to all those fluffy (though enjoyable) we will win the war if i find my boyfriend! books that are so popular....
   
   
4. Also,The Book Thief by Zusak. Because.... for just about every reason.
   
   
5. If you think you are going to have a hard time un-sticking from the fantasy thing - The Night Circus is a creative alternative with better writing than the others.
   
   
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime shifted my perspective through shifting the voice -- the main character is autistic. Having this sort of unique narrator was a first & helped teach me about the role of voice (helpful, when your favorite author winds up being Faulkner...)
   
   Of course there are others (non fiction: Krakauer, Hillenbrand, come to mind; deeper: Tim O'Brien, Saramago; more fantastic: Guy Kay, Herbert, etc. ) but, trying to stay within age range / contemporary, and gender neutral... that's where I started! if any of these seem like the right thread, let me know, and i can give you a bucket more.

I did a deep dive on google just to see if I could find anything that came close to matching this. It's a long shot, but maybe Finding Mighty? No mention of magic, but it's got brothers, parkour, a girl, a necklace (close to an amulet?), and is a blue book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MF8NDFG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Deadline

I've been reading a lot this past week, after some time mostly doing other things...

Lair for Rent by Skyler Grant. Not bad, read if you want more in the Laboratory/Emma-verse.

Mastermind by Steve Kelliher. Great first litterpug, made me add his fantasy series to my backlog of books to read.

Hell's Ascendant by Benjamin Medrano. Great finish to another trilogy. Not litterpug, though Sting and Song qualifies. I recommend reading all of his books.

Orc Pirate by Simon Archer. Not litterpug, read it because I enjoyed Forger of Worlds. Enjoyable, though it is a harem power fantasy.

Tree Guardian by Andrew Karevik. Pretty good, second dungeon core novel following a seed of Yggdrasil.

Skyflare by Aaron Oster. Finally got around to this, it's alright, third book in the Supermage series.

Buryoku by Aaron Oster. Enjoyable cultivation novel, first in a new series. We'll see how it goes.

Manifest by Cody Whitfill. Very enjoyable, some interesting differences from similar novels. Looking forward to the next book.

Last but not least, I'm currently reading Gamer for Love by Daniel Schinhofen. A couple of the Alpha World books were not that enjoyable for me, but it seems like he's back on track and finishing off the series well with this one. I'm glad to see another series end.

I've seen "Horcoff up my Semin" :/

For my own team, I usually go with Scrubs on Skates

A Summerland movie by Guillermo del Toro would be pretty neat.

It might be from Deadline, by Chris Clutcher.

>
>
>“But God knows, right?”
“Nope again.”
“God doesn’t know how things turn out?”
“It knows that things turn out. Listen, Ben, I could
spend a whole bunch of human time telling you how things
are. But if your doctor’s right, you’ll know soon enough,
okay? Let me satisfy your curiosity for now, and then let’s
stop talking about all this and live your life. God isn’t a guy.
God isn’t a girl. God is a force. You have all these people try-
ing to figure out whether to believe in God or the big bang.
Well, God is the big bang. God is the ultimate scientist. If
God relegated his thinking to human cognition, it would
never get anything done. I mean, look how slow you think,
and you’re probably the smartest kid in your class. Just know
that everything started as one, everything still is one, and it
will end up as one.

​

https://www.amazon.com/Wizenard-Training-Camp-Wesley-King/dp/1949520013


I'm buying the fuck out of this

This is very similar to the premise of the book "Epic" by Conor Kostick. Quite a fun book, if anyone is interested.

Joey Pigza Loses Control?

https://www.amazon.com/Joey-Pigza-Loses-Control-Gantos/dp/1250061679

Well, there's always the classic Scrubs on Skates series. Published in the 50s and written by Neil Young's dad Scott.

As for non-fiction, I really liked From the Broadcast Booth by Brian McFarlane. He also has a series profiling the Original Six teams. Link to Leafs one because bias.

Bottom of the 33rd was a very well written look at both the longest game in history as well as the players, ballpark staff, and fans in attendance. It puts the game in perspective.

If you're more into fiction and don't mind diving into a book written for Young Adults Summerland is a very enjoyable read. But it sounds like you would like more baseball in the book.

The Boys of Summer has a great blend of baseball and real life, talking about baseball in the 1930s and 40s and the hearts that broke when the Dodgers (and Giants) moved from New York to California.

This doesn't quite sound like what you remember, but maybe - Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee

Maybe it was because I was in high school and could relate to the protagonist more, but I really enjoyed The Berlin Boxing Club. It's a loose backstory to when Max Schmeling saved two Jews during Kristalnacht.

Link for those interested

That may have been the one called "The Fear Street Saga" trilogy

Book 1 - The Betrayal

Book 2 - The Secret

Book 3 - The Burning

I always liked the stand alone books like The Cheater or The Wrong Number and the Super Chillers because they were extra long. My favorite was probably Silent Night. I also liked the 99 Fear Street Series or all the books in the Fear Street Cheerleaders series.

When I was in 6th grade, one time the Scholastic book order had this monthly club you could sign up for. Every month they would send you 2 Fear Street books and some other Fear Street/R.L. Stine merchandise like stickers, buttons, or bookmarks, things like that. When I first started, it was great. They would send me the latest one that just came out that month and one of the previous older ones. I did this for a really long time, many many months and built up quite a collection of Fear Street books. However, I think they started running out of books to send me because it ended up becoming they would send me the latest Fear Street and then some other "horror" novel, like non-Fear Street R.L. Stine books, a Christopher Pike book or something like Twins by Caroline B. Cooney. I had so many of these books I was like my own library. After awhile though, the books they were sending got shittier and shittier and they were sending me stuff like some Ichabod Crane/Sleepy Hallow type book and I ended up stopping the monthly book club. Then, a few years later, my mother sold most of them at a yard sale. Now I'm really wishing she had kept them, I would have taken them back. Which is why, I bought a bunch of them again! Now I want to go read a Fear Street book...

Depends on your level, I'm about a B2 and I read this one and it was easy enough. If your local bookstore has a spanish section I would just browse the various age ranges until you find one that's not too difficult (or easy).

Could it be this series? It's religious in nature... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WTJF46U/ref=series_rw_dp_sw

Molybdenum. It's #42.

If I win

The book is called Wildball, it’s a young adult novel about a guy playing in a summer baseball league and how he deals with some traumatic memories and navigates his new relationships. You can buy it here if you are extra curious! Thx Coldplay

At Reichfield High, soccer is war and the battle is fought between Neo-Nazi's and Mexicans.

Addie learns he's a clone of Hitler and is more pissed than he is pleased.

He embarks on a journey to choose a different path and attempts to reject his racist upbringing in Barton Ludwig's satirical coming-of-age, which is ever so important with fascism on the rise in America.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blitzball-Barton-Ludwig/dp/0995044198/

Here are some links for the product in the above comment for different countries:

Amazon Smile Link: Deadline


|Country|Link|Charity Links|
|:-----------|:------------|:------------|
|USA|smile.amazon.com|EFF|
|UK|www.amazon.co.uk|Macmillan|
|Spain|www.amazon.es||
|France|www.amazon.fr||
|Germany|www.amazon.de||
|Japan|www.amazon.co.jp||
|Canada|www.amazon.ca||
|Italy|www.amazon.it||
|India|www.amazon.in||
|China|www.amazon.cn||




To help add charity links, please have a look at this thread.

This bot is currently in testing so let me know what you think by voting (or commenting). The thread for feature requests can be found here.

I knew this from The Berlin Boxing Club! This book was a great read and I highly suggest it. You won't regret the decision.

To all the other suggestion so far, definitely add Deadline by Chris Crutcher.

They already have a book out about him!
[A Boy At The Leaf's Camp] (https://www.amazon.ca/Boy-at-Leafs-Camp/dp/0771090900)