Most Popular Books by Paul Mantell

When Coach Spangler leaves at the start of their second year of junior high school, thirteen-year-old twins Tiki and Ronde wonder if his replacement, history teacher Mr. Wheeler, can coach the Eagles to another winning football season.

Wanting to fit in with his skateboarding friends, Zach is tempted to adopt a new image of spiked bleached hair and a pierced ear.

Rivalry flares between twelve-year-old Freddie and his fourteen-year-old brother Dondi, both on and off the snowboarding slopes, nearly leading to disaster.

Young Derek Jeter''s friendship with a new student puts him at odds with his friends and seems to be hurting his baseball swing, plus he gets in trouble for confronting a student who is bullying his sister, in violation of the contract with his parents.

Get to know three-time Grand Slam singles winner Arthur Ashe in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years! As a kid, Arthur Ashe was so small his father said he wasn’t allowed to play football, so he played tennis instead. He went on to become a professional tennis player—the only black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. After contracting HIV from a blood transfusion, Arthur fought to educate people about HIV and AIDS and to fund treatment for the disease until his death in 1993. This book is laced with numerous illustrations, and the back of the book includes a timeline, questions, activities, and a glossary, making it the perfect addition to a classroom or home school setting. Perfect for emerging readers, the Childhood of Famous Americans series illustrates the incredible true stories of great Americans.

Derek questions his friendship with Dave when Dave unexpectedly turns hostile, and the distraction begins to affect both players on the field.

"Young Derek Jeter is excited when his father becomes coach of his baseball team, but things don''t go as he had planned"--

When the Tiki and Ronde make the junior high school basketball team, they see that they each have their own skills and the most important skill is teamwork.

Through the course of a difficult season, Ronde learns that his coach is right about football being a mental game, as he tries to fill in as kicker while he and his identical twin, Tiki, help Adam improve his grades.

Learning to love the sport from his father, Dale Earnhardt grew to become one of the greatest American stock-car drivers of all time through his numerous wins and inspiring attitude, both on and off the track. Original.

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field.

A guide to gardening, covering indoor, outdoor, and specialty gardens, getting started, growing vegetables, flowers, houseplants, and herbs, and controlling pests.

A bopgraphy of the Indian Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who founded Buddhism and became known as The Buddha, focusing primarily on his childhood.

Follow the saga of the Ewing family, rocked by tragedy but blessed with a will for survival as big and brash as Texas itself.

A simple retelling of the four Musketeers'' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis'' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

Megan''s life takes a sharp turn when her father''s new job forces her to transfer from private school to the public junior high school halfway through ninth grade.

Matt Christopher Sports Stories.

While his mother is working overseas, Matt Harper is living temporarily with his uncle in Dragon Valley, where he practices his snowboard technique and contends with a local bully.

Tanya Anderssen asks Archangel''s help to find the man she loves and bring him home from the Savage Lands.

Provides instructions for making a home recycling center, putting on a magic show, making musical instruments, and performing other types of weekend activities.

The X-men travel beneath the earth to rescue Colossus, who has been taken prisoner by Callisto, queen of the Morlocks

The X-Men are off to the resort of Genosha, lured by the promise of special mutant discounts. But when they get there, they discover that behind the picture-postcard beauty of the place lurks a sinister plot . . . to enslave them.

Dozens of games and celebrations invite kids to investigate the Middle Ages, while through descriptions of food, clothing and more, they can become part of a mythical time of castles and kings, cathedrals and conquests. Illustrations & photos. Consumable.

The mutants, under the power of Apocalypse and his four horsemen, are programmed to destroy the world. Includes glossary.

Thirteen-year-old Kelly, softball star, has to face new challenges in her life, including assignment to a different softball team and her mother''s new boyfriend.