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101) Homecoming
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©[2020]
Language
English
Description
Devin visits her best friend, Kara, in Connecticut but the visit goes very badly, distracting Devin just before the Kicks' first playoff match.
102) Far from normal
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Maddie McPherson is sick of Normal--both her hometown of Normal, Illinois and being the 'normal' sibling. But when she lands a summer internship with a sports marketing firm, she finally has a chance to crawl out of her genius brother's shadow. Not to mention, a glowing letter of recommendation could secure her admission to her dream college"--Amazon.
104) Eyes on the goal
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Always turning to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies, for answers and a dose of luck, 12-year-old Maya must find the courage to write her own fortune to answer her deep-down questions.
107) World team
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
All over the world, children in places as different as Germany, Kenya, Japan, Australia, and India are practicing and playing soccer, all dreaming of winning the World Cup.
Author
Publisher
Putnam Publishing Group
Pub. Date
20140313.
Language
English
Description
Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
109) Key player
Author
Series
Front desk volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Titles Worth Trying: Historical Fiction [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While everyone in Fairyland is getting ready for the Fairy Olympics, Jack Frost's goblins steal the Sports Fairies' magic objects, and without Stacey the soccer fairy's magic ball, Rachel's favorite soccer team will never reach their goal.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 3
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Emma and her brothers and sisters want to get a kitten and another ferret, and Emma wants their nanny to be the chaperone on her soccer team trip instead of her mother, the children decide to go on strike to try to force their parents to meet their demands.
113) La primera final
Author
Series
Goleador volume 1
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"�Quieres conocer la incre�ible historia de Ansu Fati, nuevo 10 del Bar�ca y goleador de la selecci�on espa�nola, y c�omo ha llegado a ser uno de los mejores jugadores del mundo con tan solo 18 a�nos? �No te lo pierdas! Ansu tiene una gran pasi�on: jugar al f�utbol. En este primer libro de la colecci�on, �el mismo nos cuenta la historia de su viaje desde Guinea-Bis�au hasta Herrera, Espa�na. Har�a amigos, ganar�a partidos,...
114) Out of bounds
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade soccer forward Nick Osborne and his teammates are highly competitive but, with help from his soccer-playing aunt, Nick begins to see that good sportsmanship is more important than winning. Includes a recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and the real story behind the novel.
Author
Series
Charlie Bumpers volume 5
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie, Tommy, and Hector have high hopes for their soccer team this season until they find out that their new coach isn't all that interested in the fantabulous plays the three friends have worked out together"--
117) The magical fruit
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa to recapture it"--
118) Ten: a soccer story
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys' game."
119) The season
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother enters her and her twin sister as debutantes for this year's deb season in Dallas, soccer star Megan McKnight is furious. She has no interest the dress-filled life of a socialite deb, but her season turns out to be one full of twists and turns - and more than one dashing suitor!"--
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