RTW: Wanna-be Sports Novels

Oh, nooo… not another challenging Road Trip Wednesday!! Every week, the YA Highway team pose a question or a challenge to their readers which we then respond to on our blogs. We can then link our blogs on the YA Highway RTW post comments. It’s fun, and most of the time I can participate without having to stretch the grey matter too much. But last week’s was hard for me, and now this week, the challenge is:

In honor of the end of the Olympics, share your favorite sports book

I can’t think of any novels I’ve read and enjoyed that have been sports-based. There might be one or two, but the fact I can’t recall what they were demonstrates that they had little impact on me. So, once again, I’ll have to be creative. Thankfully, my wife, the real creative genius of the family, is firing on all cylinders and has come up with an excellent way to answer the challenge: Books whose titles might have been sports-related. For example:

Now it’s your turn to join in the fun! Can you think of any non-sports novels whose titles lend themselves perfectly to a sporting theme? Offer your thoughts in the comments! And if you have any real sports novels you want to share, you can use the comments here, or share at YA Highway…