Whether it’s going on a neighborhood walk, dancing, playing backyard ball or an organized sport, incorporating some kind of movement is good for your health. May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. The fiction and nonfiction books listed feature sports figures as well as stories about characters involved in activities, such as cheerleading, Double Dutch, and ballet. Read, A Proclamation on National Physical Fitness And Sports Month, 2021, to learn more about the May observance.
Squad Goals
Erika J. Kendrick | Little, Brown BYR | April 6, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Game, Set, Sisters: The Venus and Serena Williams Story
Jay Leslie | Ebony Glenn | Henry Holt | March 30, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles
Michelle Meadows | Ebony Glenn | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | December 29, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Hockey Night in Kenya
Danson Mutinda | Eric Walters | Claudia Davila | October 13, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Kwame Alexander | James Patterson | Dawud Anyabwile | Jimmy Patterson | October 5, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Bunheads
Misty Copeland | Setor Fiadzigbey | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR | September 29, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Jayla Jumps In
Joy Jones | Albert Whitman & Company | September 1, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
A Star Like Jesse Owens (Smithsonian Historical Fiction)
Nikki Shannon Smith | Lisa Manuzak Wiley | Capstone Press | August 1, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Sadiq and the Fun Run
Siman Nuurali | Anjan Sarkar | Picture Window Books | August 1, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
I Am a Promise
Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce | Rachel Moss | Black Sheep | February 4, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
Leah Henderson | George Doutsiopoulos | Capstone | January 1, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
The Crossover Graphic Novel
Kwame Alexander | Dawud Anyabwile | HMH BYR | September 24, 2019 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Ghost (Track Bk. 1)
Jason Reynolds | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | August 30, 2016 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Ruby Flips for Attention (Ruby and the Booker Boys Bk. 4)
Derrick D. Barnes | Vanessa Brantley Newton | Scholastic | April 1, 2009 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
Plum Fantastic (Sugar Plum Ballerinas, Bk. 1)
Whoopi Goldberg | Deborah Underwood | Maryn Roos | Little, Brown BYR | October 21, 2008 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
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