Carl Deuker

• Nov-2024
• / General Fiction

Beloved, award-winning author Carl Deuker serves up another fast-paced sports novel -- this one about basketball and friendship.Nate plays soccer, but he doesn’t love it. He plays because it’s what his family expects. Then Lucas Cawley moves...

• Apr-2020
• / General Fiction

In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty -- one strike at a time. Lazarus “Laz” Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering w...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction

From the author of Gym Candy comes a novel of football and bullying, finding friends and finding courage. With both good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies away from physical con...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction

Levi was simple, like a child. It was the best thing about him, and it was the worst, too. When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a slow ...

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction

Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist -- a fat high school journalist named Mitch -- veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel. When Angel shows up Lincoln High, h...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction

Award-winning author Carl Deuker explores fair play versus the determination to win and the issues surrounding one teen's decision to cross the line. "Look, Mick," he said, "you're going to find out from somebody in the gym, so you might as well find...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction

Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when Seth experiences an unthinkable loss, he's forced ...

• Jun-2005
• / Action Adventure

When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina. Chase knows how much he will earn -- what he doesn’t know is how much he...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction

Like the game of baseball, life is quirky and unpredictable, as Shane Hunter discovers in the spring of his sophomore year. Suddenly and without warning his life of privilege is turned upside down. And just as suddenly, life begins to seem utterly wi...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction

Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. It's sophomore year and Nick is trying to deal with his parents' divorce. He also really wants to be a star on the basketball team. Trent, his neighbor, is angry, and aggressive. The...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction

In his senior year of high school, late bloomer Ryan Ward has just begun to feel the magic of baseball - the magic of catching a wicked slider, of throwing a runner out, of training hard and playing hard and pushing his limits. Giving up baseball wou...

• Sep-1991
• / General Fiction

"A clever blend of family conflict, superstition, and exciting sports action. Adolescent readers will empathize with the mind games Joe plays as he struggles for...independence; teachers will delight in the literary references...and librarians will p...