5 Books to Celebrate #NationalSportsDay from Holiday House and Peachtree

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Calling all fans, families, and athletes of all the sports! National Sports Day on October 16 and Holiday House and Peachtree have selected their top 5 books young readers will root root root for.

Cut from the soccer team, Albert's dreams of playing soccer are over on Earth, that is! Join him and his alien teammates dribble, cross, and score in this interstellar adventure. Action-packed, yet filled with humor and heart, Game On! is the first book in a series that features thrilling play-by-play soccer scenes and an intergalactic plot with far-reaching consequences for the Zeenods--and Earth.

While soccer-playing twins Aiden and Ava lead their teams to a championship season, they try to solve the mystery of their town’s missing soccer trophy. But will these amateur detectives be able to unravel the mystery and find someone who had both motive and opportunity to commit the crime? Will their teams make it all the way to the championships?

This dynamic picture book about the birth of women’s basketball will keep young readers riveted. Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women’s basketball game, earning national attention and putting women’s basketball on the map.

In this salute to female athleticism, author Sue Macy and illustrator Matt Collins team up once more to tell the captivating story of Gertrude Ederle’s record-smashing swim across the English Channel.

A legendary high-speed, hard-hitting rivalry on the Roller Derby track is about to be witnessed by a packed arena at the 69th Regiment Armory—and for the first time, thousands of television viewers. Here is the story of two remarkable athletes at the dawn of televised sports. In this fast-paced, meticulously researched picture book, Sue Macy’s poetic text and Matt Collins’s action-packed illustrations bring readers up close and personal with two incredible athletes.