Read-Alikes

(*denotes a Kansas Notable Book)

Books by Joe Drape

*Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen 2009

To the Swift: Classic Triple Crown Horses and Their Race for Glory, 2008

Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend, 2007

The Race for the Triple Crown: Horses, High Stakes and Eternal Hope, 2002

In the Hornets’ Nest: Charlotte and Its First Year in the NBA, 1989

Coming soon—Soldiers First: A Season Inside West Point, 2012 (recounts a season in the life of a football team at the US Military Academy whose players are not going to the NFL but rather to Iraq and Afghanistan)

Books About Community

Cities on the Plains, by James Shortridge

*From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White, by Beverley O. Buller

*Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate, by Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris

*The Moon Butter Route, by Max Yoho

Our Town on the Plains, by James Shortridge

*Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests, by Richard E. Wood

Title Towns: Class BB Boy’s Basketball Championships of Kansas, by Steven Farney

Books About Sports

*Airball: My Life in Briefs, by L. D. Harkrader

The Boys of Summer, by Roger Kahn

*Can I Keep My Jersey: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond, by Paul Shirley

Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle, by Lars Anderson

Club 50: 50 Point Single Game Scorers in Kansas High School Boys Basketball, by Steven Farney

Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger

In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle, by Madeleine Blais

Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town, by Warren St. John
Play Their Hearts Out, by George Dohrmann

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, by Warren St. John

Where Dreams Die Hard, by Carlton Stowers