Titres dans Fiction sur les sports

Im Jahr 1610 versenken Piraten vor der Küste Japans ein englisches Handelsschiff. Jack Fletcher, der Sohn des Steuermanns, ist der einzige Überlebende. Der berühmte Schwertmeister Masamoto Takeshi adoptiert ihn und lässt ihn zum Samurai ausbilden. Doch noch immer schwebt Jack in Lebensgefahr. Der gefürchtete Ninja Drachenauge hat es auf einen großen Schatz abgesehen, den Jack aus dem Schiff gerettet hat: das Logbuch seines Vaters. Ein junger Engländer. Gestrandet in Japan. Ausgebildet zum Samurai. Bereit für den Kampf seines Lebens.

Charlie Hastings ist Star ihres Baseballteams - und der typische Kumpeltyp. Als ihr bester Freund, Teamkollege und Schwarm mit einem anderen Mädchen ausgeht, ist sie am Boden zerstört. Veränderung muss her, und Charlie will den Sport an den Nagel hängen. Aber die Meisterschaften sind nah, und die Roosevelt High Ravens ohne Charlie aufgeschmissen. Da macht Kapitän Jace ihr ein Angebot: Wenn sie bleibt, hilft er ihr, mehr als Mädchen wahrgenommen zu werden. Vielleicht gewinnt er ja so ihr Herz.

Die 12-jährige Ava hat ihr Pferd verloren und möchte erstmal nichts mehr mit Pferden zu tun haben. Doch dann lernt sie die blinde Stute Soraya mit der außergewöhnlichen, silbernen Fellfarbe kennen. Die Stute übt eine enorme Anziehungskraft auf Ava aus und vertraut nur ihr, sonst niemandem. Mithilfe von Sorayas Besitzern, dem alten Silvester und seiner Enkelin Elsie, beginnt Ava langsam, Soraya in ihr Herz zu schließen, denn ohne sie hat Soraya keine Zukunft. Eine magische Pferdefreundschaft beginnt.

In seinem Heimatdorf schießt Thomas Tore wie am Fließband. Seine Mannschaft ist so gut, dass sie sogar an einem großen Turnier teilnehmen darf. Danach geht Thomas' absoluter Traum in Erfüllung: Er darf zum größten Münchner Verein. Doch dort sitzt er erstmal auf der Ersatzbank. Aufgeben? Von wegen - Thomas trainiert noch härter, denn so schafft er es bestimmt.

Wie man als junge Frau in einer Männerwelt erwachsen wird. New York, 1993: Die 17-jährige Lucy Adler ist klug und auf dem Basketballplatz ein Ass. Angesehen wäre sie jedoch nur, würde sie mit dem Strom schwimmen und die Jungs vom Rand aus anfeuern. Lucy ist seit einer gefühlten Ewigkeit in Percy verliebt, doch er ist mit einer oberflächlichen Cheerleaderin zusammen. Wie kann sie einen Weg in sein Herz finden? Und wie ihren Weg in eine selbstbestimmte Zukunft, in der sie alle Freiheiten hat wie ein Junge, aber trotzdem eine junge Frau bleibt?

A Franc piace da impazzire il basket, ma non sa giocare. Ci prova e ci riprova, ma - deluso perché non riesce mai a fare canestro - è pronto a darsi per vinto. Quando si avvia col padre verso il campetto per un'ultima partita, avviene qualcosa di inatteso e sconvolgente che lo catapulterà in un mondo di fantasia, animato da personaggi oscuri e inquietanti che cercheranno di approfittarsi di lui. Per riappropriarsi di quel che è suo sarà necessario sconfiggere la paura, riconquistare il corpo e i desideri, fare un canestro decisivo: usare al meglio il suo cuore.

Una sera, per caso, Mario Balotelli incontra Jack, un quindicenne che vive a testa in giù come un fante delle carte, ma fa rovesciate fantastiche. A scuola, in chiesa, con le ragazze, Jack deve affrontare i bulletti che gli lanciano banane, un sindaco sceriffo e le "Ronde della tranquillità". Poi un giorno Mario, dalla tv, gli dedica un gol. Un romanzo intelligente, comico ed emozionante sulla lotta di un ragazzo e di un campione contro la stupidità e la violenza degli altri. Che culmina in un'indimenticabile partita "capovolta" con altri campioni: Ibra, Buffon, Gattuso, Santon e Totti.

Sadia wishes life in high school was as straightforward as a game of basketball. Fifteen-year-old Sadia Ahmadi is passionate about one thing: basketball. Her best friend Mariam, on the other hand, wants to get noticed by the popular crowd and has started de-jabbing, removing her hijab, at school every morning. Sadia's mom had warned her that navigating high school could be tricky. As much as she hates to admit it, her mom was right.

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees his life-or-death struggle echoed by the young bird.

Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town, he has a chance to get drafted by the major leagues. But playing for the other team means leaving behind his family, including Antonio, Laz's younger brother, who more and more, seems to be drawn to the dark world of the Jet City's drug ring.

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy Bijan is the man of the hour: An anonymous cyberbully sends the entire school a picture of Bijan photoshopped to look like a terrorist.

A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable slowdown has put her dream in jeopardy, and Susannah is fighting to keep her career afloat when two important people enter her life: a new coach with a revolutionary training strategy and a charming fellow swimmer named Harry Matthews.

After living away for years, Sandy Lafonde returns to her childhood home at the Watishka First Nation reserve. Little has changed since she left - a local gang menaces the area, the community is splintered, and the Cree youth are left restless and frustrated. Sandy realizes that she needs to do something to help, so she proposes to start a junior hockey team. Drawing on her own past, Sandy steps in as coach and tries to reign in the star player, hot-headed Sheldon Lambert, a 15-year-old hockey prodigy who just can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

Five kids with one dream: to become the greatest sports stars in the world! Follow Kim as she trains to be the best at her favourite sport: rugby! Kim has been at the best – and most mysterious – sports academy in the world for a few months now. She and the rest of her class were selected because they all shared a determination and willingness to improve. Now the gang are on their way to Japan for the rugby World Cup – but they’re going to need some more teammates.

Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight’s team sleepover, the girls are all about forging the bonds of trust, loyalty, and friendship necessary to win. Everything hinges on the midnight initiation ceremony - a beloved tradition and the only facet of being a Wildcat that the girls control. Until now. Coach - a handsome former college player revered and feared in equal measure - changes the plan and spins his team on a new adventure.

The sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series—a Southern soap opera with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucks—from USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines. Ezmita Ramos has always had big plans for her future, ones that would take her far outside the Lawton city...

Ya desde su publicación, "Quidditch a través de los tiempos" se convirtió en uno de los libros más populares de la biblioteca de Hogwarts. Leído por Harry Potter, Hermione Granger y muchos otros, es la guía indispensable del juego más famoso del mundo mágico. Desde el pantano Queerditch en el siglo XI hasta convertirse en el sofisticado deporte que es hoy, "Quidditch a través de los tiempos" te transportará a aquellos momentos tanto de triunfo como de desesperación (para quienes apoyen a los Chudley Cannons) que forman parte del quidditch. Apréndelo todo sobre la historia y las reglas del juego, desde algunas de las 700 faltas (y en qué final de la Copa del Mundo se cometieron todas) hasta la diferencia entre un Transylvanian Tackle y un Woollongong Shimmy.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves - which is strange, because she wasn’t interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn’t hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.)

For 14-year-old Krissy, her new life maxim is pretty sad: First choices out. Second choices in. It's been that way since dialysis left her disabled. Her limitations went from none to a ton, and now they stand in the way of her dream - to compete in dog agility with her runty Sheltie pup, Aslan. Krissy has seen videos of agility handlers sprinting, spinning, and twisting as they race with their dogs through the intricate obstacle courses. It's a beautiful sport. Like dance. Like art. And surely impossible for someone like her.

Holland Delviss wants to be known for her talent as a hockey player, not a hockey player who happens to be a girl. But when her school team is selected to be featured and televised as part of HockeyFest, her status as the only girl on the boys’ team makes her the lead story. Not everyone is thrilled with Holland’s new fame, but there’s one person who fiercely supports her, and it’s the last person she expects (and definitely the last person she should be falling for): her bossy team captain, Wes.