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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"In the NFL--America's most popular sports league--quarterbacks are kings. The right QB becomes the face of a franchise and marches his team--and millions of fans--on a glorious winning odyssey that can last for a decade or longer. The wrong QB leads his team to losses, infighting, second-guessing, and fan misery. Quarterbacks are drafted straight out of college with indescribable expectations and tantalizing dreams of stardom resting on their shoulders...
Author
Series
Harlequin super romance volume 1619
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
"A party-loving sports figure is not an ideal parent in Alexis Brown's eyes. Too bad quarterback Dan Delito is the only parent her niece has. Alexis isn't in a position to raise the baby on her own, which means she needs Dan's help. And that means she'll have to make nice with the unsuitable man. Fine. Much to Alexis's surprise, however, Dan is good with his daughter. He also knows he needs help, so he convinces Alexis to act as a nanny until he gets...
Author
Publisher
Telling Stories, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Few in Anita Barney's social circle realized she came from a humble working class family. When her fairytale marriage to the CEO of Wendy's is cut short, her world is turned upside down. Even as cancer claimed his life, Bob ensured his wife was financially secure and left her with chilling advice, "Don't let a man take all of your money." Now a widow, Anita reconnects with Art Schlichter at a church, after a single brief encounter thirty years earlier....
Author
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Michael, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, uses mental telepathy to communicate football plays to his quarterback twin brother Tom, then suddenly finds himself on the field in his brother's place.
Author
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A compulsively readable sports narrative by senior NFL writer for ESPN's The Undefeated (now Andscape), Jason Reid, chronicling both the history of Black players in the NFL, such as Warren Moon, and the recent careers of groundbreaking Black quarterbacks, including Colin Kaepernick. In September 2019, ESPN's The Undefeated website (now Andscape) began a season-long series of articles on the emergence of Black quarterbacks in the NFL. The first article...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fresh off of a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win for the Kansas City Chiefs, two inspiring stories that fit perfectly together--a biography of superstar quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who brought the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in fifty years in 2020 as well as a second in 2023, along with the historical struggles and recent resurgence of the former "Paris of the Plains," Kansas City"--
Author
Series
Publisher
BookShots / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Grayson Knight, a popular quarterback with a squeaky-clean reputation, is arrested for drug possession, lawyer Melissa St. James struggles to prove his innocence in spite of the unsettling secret he is hiding.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this young reader's edition, one of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today.
Author
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Cap Wadell wants to play on a "real" football team, but his middle school in a small Texas town does not have enough players until his grandfather revives interest in the game of six-man football"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers 12 of the best Super Bowl quarterbacks in history. With engaging text and colorful photos, this book celebrates everything fans love about these players and why they're the best Super Bowl quarterbacks.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Rocket Men, sportswriter John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the league-men who not only shaped the history of football, but made indelible contributions to the cause of civil rights in America. As Eisenberg recounts, white coaches, scouts, and team owners long perceived Black players as unfit for the quarterback position. Believing Black athletes could not play "in thinking roles," they relegated them to running...
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