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Friday Night Football

High school football season is around the corner. Check out these HS football themed books.

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  • "Friday Night Lights" meets "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" in this juicy, mind-twisting thriller about football, romance, and the cost of playing the game.
    Paperback, 2025New York, New York : Penguin Workshop, 2025. — Y FICTION BUCHTA
  • All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly…
    Book, 2025New York : Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2025] — Y FICTION DAVIS
  • From celebrated author Robert Lipsyte, this powerful coming-of-age follows high school football player Ronnie "Rhino" Rhinehart after a violent incident at school leaves him questioning everything he ever believed.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — Y FICTION LIPSYTE
  • Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it's an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get…
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — Y FICTION ADLER
  • Fourteen-year-old star freshman quarterback Caleb Springer watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport, forcing Caleb to consider whether playing football, the sport of his dreams, is worth risking…
    Book, 2022New York : Amulet Books, 2022. — J GREENWALD
  • This fearless debut novel explores racism, injustice, and self-expression through the story of a promising Black football star in Louisiana.
    Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2021] — Y FICTION BUFORD
  • "Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship--before she came out as trans. As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to…
    Book, 2025[Montclair, New Jersey] : Levine Querido, [2025] — Y FICTION ZELLER
  • "Friday Night Lights" meets Morgan Matson's "The Unexpected Everything" in this contemporary debut where swoonworthy romance meets underdog sports story.
    Book, 2020New York : Poppy/Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — Y FICTION HENNING
  • "Friday Night Lights" meets "Concussion" in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author of the Stupid Fast series, exploring the dangerous concussion crisis in football through the eyes of a high school team captain.
    Book, 2019New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — Y FICTION HERBACH