Best Teen & Young Adult Football Fiction Books
Here you will get Best Teen & Young Adult Football Fiction Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. Crash
Author: by Jerry Spinelli
Yearling (March 18, 1997)
English
176 pages
A modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli. “Readers will devour this humorous glimpse of what jocks are made of.” -School Library Journal, starred reviewCocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin Bridget flat on her backside.
And he has been running over people ever since, especially Penn Webb, the dweeby, vegetarian Quaker kid who lives down the block. Through the eyes of Crash, readers get a rare glimpse into the life of a bully in this unforgettable and beloved story about stereotypes and the surprises life can bring.”Without being preachy, Spinelli packs a powerful moral wallop, leaving it to the pitch-perfect narration to drive home his point” -Publishers Weekly”Spinelli’s writing style is great for kids in this age-group, fast-paced and funny.” -Booklist
2. Off-Limits: An Opposites Attract Sports Romance (Rixon High)
Author: by L A Cotton
B08KJC275V
March 30, 2021
English
From USA Today bestselling author L A Cotton, comes an opposites-attract sports romance.Angst…Drama…Friendship…And football. Will you survive senior year? Lily Ford has always been a wallflower. But it’s senior year, and she wants nothing more than to try and push her boundaries and embrace the last year of high school.
Kaiden Thatcher has always been the star on the football field. But now he finds himself in enemy territory forced to prove himself to his new coach and teammates. It starts with a dare. Seven minutes of heaven in a boat shed.
But it quickly turns into something neither of them saw coming. He’s everything she should resist. She’s everything he shouldn’t want. But neither of them are willing to walk away because together, their demons seem that little bit easier to silence.
There’s just one problem … Lily is the coach’s daughter. And one hundred percent off-limits.
3. That Promise: A Small Town, Friends-to-Lovers Romance (That Boy Book 7)
Author: by Jillian Dodd
B08LCKVWR7
June 8, 2021
English
#6 Book in the Amazon Store! #1 in Teen and Young Adult RomanceWhat happens to childhood promises when you grow up? Growing up, Devaney Diamond and Chase Mackenzie promised to go to college together. But it’s been two years since the summer that changed everything between them, and their friendship hasn’t recovered.
Now, Dani is faced with all the challenges of her freshman year of collegenavigating rush week, making new friends, and living on her ownwhich is both exhilarating and intimidating. In high school, Dani was homecoming queen and head cheerleader. She should be able to handle the pressure, but college has been more overwhelming than she expected.
Chase, on the other hand, is living the dream. It’s his senior year of high school, his football team is hoping to go undefeated, and he’s being heavily recruited. When Dani returns home for a weekend, she realizes why college feels so overwhelmingshe doesn’t have Chase to share it with.
In hopes of salvaging their friendship, she repeats an old traditionsneaking over to his room with pizza after his game. But instead of fixing their friendship, they end up sleeping together. Chase is thrilled that Dani is back in his life, but being friends with benefits when feelings are involved is more complicated than Chase imagined.
4. Until Friday Night (Field Party)
Author: by Abbi Glines
1481438840
English
352 pages
A #1 New York Times bestseller and the first novel in a brand-new seriesfrom bestselling author Abbi Glinesabout a small Southern town filled with cute boys in pickup trucks, Friday night football games, and crazy parties that stir up some major drama.
To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be Big Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he’s battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer.
Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out.
So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away. As West’s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his fatherso in the dark shadows of a post-game party, he opens up to the one girl who he knows won’t tell anyone else.
5. Gym Candy
Author: by Carl Deuker
0547076312
English
313 pages
Look, Mick, he said, you’re going to find out from somebody in the gym, so you might as well find out from me. Those supplements you’re taking? They might get you a little bigger, but just a little. If you’re after serious results, there’s other stuff that produces better results much faster, stuff that a lot of guys in the gym use.What other stuff?
You know what I’m talking aboutgym candy. Runningback Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best.
But football is a cruel sport. It requires power, grace, speed, quickness, and knowledge of the game.It takes luck, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat. What elite athlete wouldn’t look for an edge?
A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster? This novel explores the dark corners of the heart of a young football player as he struggles for success under the always glaringand often unforgivingstadium lights.
6. Game Changer
Author: by Neal Shusterman
English
400 pages
0061998672
“A timely, speculative thought experiment in perspective, privilege, and identity.” Kirkus”The conceit behind Shusterman’s latest is truly unique. While it exhibits the author’s usual storytelling aplomb, it also manages to delve into more serious and timely subject matter, such as racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Despite these heavy topics, the story still moves at a lively pace and, thanks to a zany sci-fi twist, manages to pack in a few laughs as well.” BooklistAll it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it.
Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimensionand keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own. The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he’s ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the pastuniverses where he finds himself looking at life through entirely different eyes.
7. Field Party Collection Books 1-4: Until Friday Night; Under the Lights; After the Game; Losing the Field
Author: by Abbi Glines
English
1424 pages
1534446397
The first four books in Abbi Glines’s #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series are now available together in a collectible boxed set! Welcome to the Field Party. Where you bring the party to the field, where you dance all night, where anything goes.
From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines comes a series about a small Southern town filled with cute boys in pickup trucks, Friday night football games, and wild parties that stir up some major drama. This boxed set includes: Until Friday Night Under the Lights After the Game Losing the Field
8. The Game You Play: A Hate-to-Love Story (Rixon Raiders Book 2)
Author: by L A Cotton
B07TB698NT
September 17, 2019
English
The bestselling Rixon Raiders series continues. Cocky football players, school rivalry, and the girls who get in their way. Get ready The Raiders are back! Felicity Giles has a list.Lose her virginity. Meet her knight-in-shining-armor and fall in love.
Have the best senior year a girl can have.The only problem? Her knight isn’t a saint, he’s a villain, and she’s pretty sure he’ll destroy her before ever handing over a piece of his heart. Jason Ford has a plan.
Win State and go down as one of the most successful Quarterbacks in Rixon Raider history. Head off to college and pursue his dream of being drafted to the NFL. Avoid the girl under his skin. Felicity Giles, his stepsister’s best friend and perpetual pain in his ass.
She’s annoying as hell.Quirky. She’s a game to him, nothing more. Until his arch-rival comes after him and the few people he cares about … And Felicity gets caught in the crossfire. And suddenly hating her feels a whole lot like falling in love.
9. Under the Lights (Field Party)
Author: by Abbi Glines
English
352 pages
1481438883
In the follow-up to Abbi Glines’s #1 New York Times bestseller Until Friday Nightwhich bestselling author Kami Garcia called tender, honest, and achingly realthree teens from a small southern town are caught in a dramatic love triangle. Willa can’t erase the bad decisions of her past that led her down the path she’s on now.
But she can fight for forgiveness from her family. And she can protect herself by refusing to let anyone else get close to her. High school quarterback and town golden boy Brady used to be the best of friends with Willashe even had a crush on him when they were kids.
But that’s all changed now: her life choices have made her a different person from the girl he used to know. Gunner used to be friends with Willa and Brady, too. He too is larger than life and a high school football starnot to mention that his family basically owns the town of Lawton.
He loves his life, and doesn’t care about anyone except himself. But Willa is the exceptionand he understands the girl she’s become in a way no one else can. As secrets come to light and hearts are broken, these former childhood friends must face the truth about growing up and falling in loveeven if it means losing each other forever.
10. Pop
Author: by Gordon Korman
Balzer + Bray
English
272 pages
Pop delivers suspense, humor, sports action, and a compelling look at the damage those “pop”s in football can causeGordon Korman’s books appeal to a wide range of kids and adults and can pull in even reluctant readers. Share Pop in your home or classroom; sports fans in particular won’t be able to put it down.
When Marcus moves to a new town in the dead of summer, he doesn’t know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up a friendship with a man named Charlie, the best football player Marcus has ever seen.
He can’t believe his good luck when he finds out that Charlie is Charlie Popovich, or “the King of Pop,” as he’d been nicknamed during his career as an NFL linebacker. Charlie turns out to be a prankster, and his actions get Marcus in trouble.
He’s also the father of the quarterback at Marcus’s new schoolwho leads the team in icing out the new kid. The story of a good kid’s struggle to land on his feet in a new town after his parents split up combines with compelling sports action and even some romance in Gordon Korman’s Pop.
11. Manning Up (West 44 Ya Verse Identifiers)
Author: by Bee Walsh
West 44 Books
English
200 pages
Jack is at the top of his game. He’s a senior running back on the football team, dominating every opponent in his way. To everyone else, Jack is totally in control. In reality, he struggles with an eating disorder that controls every aspect of his daily life.
When Jack starts using steroids, he feels invincible, but will the steroids help him win the big game, or will he lose everything he’s ever worked for?
12. Gutless
Author: by Carl Deuker
Clarion Books
English
336 pages
The sports may hook readers, but the bullying will land them. Kirkus The wide receiver best able to hang on to his quarterback’s passes, Brock Ripley would be a star for the varsity teamif he could just bring himself to put his body on the line.But he can’t.
Just like he can’t bring himself to stand up for his friend Richie Fang, who has been targeted by the quarterback, known for his bullying. As events spiral out of control, Brock is faced with a true test of character.
Can he find the courage to step up and do what is right?
13. No More Dead Dogs
Author: by Gordon Korman
English
240 pages
1484798449
Best-selling author Gordon Korman’s middle-grade favorite, now with a fresh look! Wallace Wallace won’t lie, even if it means detention. And after he handed in a scorching book report of the classic novel, Old Shep, My Pal, detention is just what he’s been handed.
He is sure he’s done nothing wrong: he hated every minute of that book, especially when the dog dies in the end! Why do dogs always die at the end? Wallace refuses to do a rewrite of his report, so his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play of Old Shep, My Pal, forces him go to the rehearsals to teach him a lesson on why the story is the way it is.
Surrounded by theater kids who are apprehensive of him, Wallace sets out to prove himself. But not by changing his mind. Instead, he changes the play into a rock-and-roll rendition, complete with Rollerblades and a moped!
14. After the Game (Field Party Book 3)
Author: by Abbi Glines
B01M00XHFY
August 22, 2017
English
The third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party seriesa southern soap opera with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucksfrom USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines. Two years ago, Riley Young fled from Lawton, Alabama. After accusing the oldest Lawton son, Rhett, of rape, everyone called her a liar and she had no option but to leave.
Now she’s back, but she’s not at Lawton High finishing up her senior year. She’s at home raising the little girl that no one believed was Rhett’s. Rhett is off at college living the life he was afraid he’d lose with Riley’s accusation, so Riley agrees to move back to Lawton so she and her parents could take care of her grandmother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
But the town still hasn’t forgotten their hate for her, and she hasn’t forgotten the way they turned on her when she needed them most. When town golden boy Brady Higgens finds Riley and her daughter, Bryony, stranded on the side of the road in a storm, he pulls over and gives them a ride.
15. Making a Play (Field Party)
Author: by Abbi Glines
B07MGS7QZD
August 20, 2019
English
The fifth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party seriesa southern soap opera with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucksfrom USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines. Ryker Lee is finally enjoying his senior yearhe has great friends, hangs out with hot girls, and is on track to get a football scholarship that will set him up for college.
Despite this, a small part of him wonders if there’s more to life than parties and meaningless hookupsand if football even means as much to him as it does to his fellow teammates. And when he meets the new girl at school, his world totally changes Aurora McClay is new to Lawton.
She’s grateful that her twin brother, Hunter, is star of the football team and can help her adjust to her new school, but she’s not grateful at how overprotective he is over every person she meets. Just because she is deaf does not mean people have to treat her differently.
When she meets Ryker Lee, the two of them spark an instant and intense chemistry, one that proves to be controversial not only because of Ryker’s reputation as a player, but also because of Aurora and Hunter’s father’s bigoted views about who Aurora can and can’t date.
16. The Harder You Fall: A Friends-to Lovers Romance (Rixon Raiders Book 3)
Author: by L A Cotton
B07XGBW4JZ
January 7, 2020
English
The bestselling Rixon Raiders series continues. Cocky football players, school rivalry, and the girls who get in their way. Get ready The Raiders are back for one final play! Mya Hernandez has scars. The kind that run deep and leave marks.
Rixon is only supposed to be a temporary place to hide, but it’s quickly becoming something more. She’s almost certain it has nothing to do with the blond-haired, blue-eyed football player who makes her laugh. Who makes her believe in fairy tales again.
Even if she knows her life is destined to be nothing more than a tragedy. Asher Bennet has secrets. Not the scandalous kind, but the ones that fester, slowly eating away at your soul. On the face of it, he’s Mr Popular, always down for a party and causing a little mayhem.
But on the inside, he just wants someone to see him.Really see him. Too bad the one girl who sees past his facade has already friend-zoned him. It’s probably for the best though.She’s different.A fighter. She’s everything he wants but can never have.
