Your child would rather be on the field than in a chair with a book, and that's exactly who this shelf is for. Every one of these puts them inside a game they already love, baseball, football, track, basketball, roller derby, with the same rush they get from playing it. Look down the list, find the sport your child is obsessed with, and hand them that one. Any single book here can be the one that finally makes them a reader.
These are grouped by the sport at the center, so the way to use them is easy: pick the game your child loves and start there. A baseball fanatic should meet Honus & Me or Heat; a football child, Football Genius; a runner, Ghost; a basketball player, The Crossover; a child with wheels or a taste for graphic novels, Roller Girl. The whole idea is that the right sport, in their hands, does the convincing.