On his old team, Tom Poulos was a star catcher. But his new team is different. For one thing, all the players are older and bigger than him. For another, no matter how hard he tries and how hard he practices, he can’t catch the curve balls that the pitcher sends flying over the plate. Tom feels like he’s letting the team down, a feeling that gets worse once a new catcher joins the team and Tom is benched. Can Tom find a way to regain his rightful place behind the plate?

Curve Ball (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Teen & Young Adult

Danakas, John

Literature & Fiction

Lorimer

Tom Poulos is looking forward to a summer of baseball. His team is in the City of Toronto Little League playoffs, and he has a feeling they can win the championship this year.But instead of playing catcher for the Jarvis Badgers, Tom finds himself on a plane to Winnipeg, where he'll spend the summer with an uncle he doesn't even know. His mother thinks Tom will be better off there, but Tom's not so sure. What if he doesn't get along with his uncle? And Winnipeg doesn't have a team in the major leagues.As it turns out, Uncle Nick is pretty neat, and the local ball team just happens to need a catcher. Tom even becomes friends with the best player on the team. The problem is, Tom's never had to catch a curve ball before, and if he doesn't learn soon, he'll be out of the game.

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Tom Poulos is sure his baseball team, the Jarvis Badgers, will make the Toronto playoffs this year. He's looking forward to a summer of playing little league and watching big league ball, until he's sent to Winnipeg to stay with relatives he hasn't even met. Winnipeg doesn't have a major league team and his Uncle Nick, a first-generation migrant from Greece, is strange in an old-world kind of way. Tom soon finds, however, that a smaller field still offers plenty of challenges--to play and to learn. Curve Ball shows how unexpected changes--in sport and in life--offer opportunities to learn and to grow.

Lizzie's just been named captain of the soccer team -- the boys' soccer team -- but some of her teammates aren't playing nice. Will it be boys vs. girls forever, or can Lizzie think of a way to settle the score, once and for all?
 Lizzie's Soccer Showdown is the story of a strong young woman who, when faced with prejudice, reacts with grace under pressure.

Soccer Showdown (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Lizzie has just been named captain of the soccer team -- the boys' soccer team, that is. For a shy twelve year old, that's a problem. Lizzie never dreamed anything like this would happen when she asked if the boys and girls could play on the same team.Now that the principal knows her name and the editor of the scool newspaper wants an interview, Lizzie wishes she could disappear. Worse still, the boys are treating the team as a big joke, and Lizzie just knows they have something planned to get even.Find out what it is in this interesting new novel from John Danakas.

Lizzie's Soccer Showdown (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Hockey Night in Transcona (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Cody Powell has graduated from playing pick-up hockey on the streets of Winnipeg to skating with his community club team, the Transcona Sharks. Coach Brackett is impressed with Cody's speed and stickhandling ability, and promotes him to the team's first line. Unfortunately, Cody takes Stu, Coach Brackett's son's, spot. Cody is worried that coach is too hard on Stu, and that Stu has as much right to play on the first line as he does. As the pressure to win games mounts, Cody is torn between loyalty to his coach and loyalty to his friend. Hockey Night in Transcona is a story about the conflicting pressures young hockey players face in their quest to succeed. [Fry Reading Level - 4.0

James Lorimer

Cody Powell has graduated from playing pick-up hockey on the streets of Winnipeg to skating with his community club team, the Transcona Sharks. Coach Brackett is impressed with Cody's speed and stickhandling ability, and promotes him to the team's first line. Unfortunately, the spot Cody takes belonged to Stu, Coach Brackett's son. Cody is worried that coach is too hard on Stu, and that Stu has as much right to play on the first line as he does. As the pressure to win games mounts, Cody is torn between loyalty to his coach and loyalty to his friend. Hockey Night in Transcona is a story about the conflicting pressures young hockey players face in their quest to succeed.

Sports & Outdoors

Brothers on Ice (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Troy and Trent are brothers who play on the same Winnipeg hockey team, Trent as forward and Troy in goal. When Trent takes a turn in nets he finds out he's a natural, the best goalie on the team. Troy has to fight for ice time, and the brothers' relationship grows colder and colder. Brothers on Ice is a poignant story of the struggle to learn what brings families together, and what drives them apart.

Until a mere generation ago, black football players were largely unproven as quarterbacks since they were excluded from a position that demanded strategic thinking instead of brute force. So, talented players headed north, rising to stardom in Canada. John Danakas profiles the pioneering athletes who donned new team colors and changed their sport.

Choice of Colours: The pioneering African-American quarterbacks who changed the face of football (Lorimer Recordbooks)

History

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Curve Ball (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Curve Ball (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Curve Ball (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Soccer Showdown (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Lizzie's Soccer Showdown (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Hockey Night in Transcona (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Hockey Night in Transcona (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Brothers on Ice (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Brothers on Ice (Lorimer Sports Stories)

Choice of Colours: The pioneering African-American quarterbacks who changed the face of football (Lorimer Recordbooks)