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Carl Deuker Carl Deuker

Last updated on: January 29, 2010

Although he says he was "a classic second-stringer" as a teenage athlete, Carl Deuker has hit a home run each time he has been at bat as a writer of sports novels. Each of his four novels has been selected as a Best Book for Young Adults; two of them have also been Recommended Books for Reluctant Readers; two have won state reading awards; and his first novel, On the Devil's Court, was voted one of the 100 Best of the Best Books for Young Adults published in the last half of the twentieth century. This is star power in the writing big leagues.

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Novels

On the Devil's Court (1988)

Heart of a Champion (1993)

Painting the Black (1997)

Night Hoops (2000)

High Heat (2003)

Runner (2005)

Gym Candy (2007)

Short Stories

If You Can't Be Lucky (1995)

The Sun and the Clouds and the Water (2006)