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81) Compulsion
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Poised to lead his high school soccer team to its third straight state championship, seventeen-year-old star player Jake Martin struggles to keep hidden his nearly debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder.
82) Shutout
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amanda and her best friend Lena start high school looking forward to playing on the varsity soccer team, but when Lena makes varsity and Amanda only makes junior varsity, their long friendship rapidly changes.
83) Switching goals
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Devin is spotted by an agent who wants her to model athletic wear, and soon she is juggling photo shoots, soccer games and practice, family time, and other activities.
Author
Series
Miss Malarkey volume 4
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The children on a newly formed soccer team love their coach, Miss Malarky, who doesn't know much about the game except how to make it fun, but the school principal and parents have other ideas.
86) Arcady's goal
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.
88) In the zone
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Devin, a seventh-grader and co-captain of the soccer team, is worried that her friends' issues will keep them from being "in the zone" while playing.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Valentina "Vale" Castillo-Green's life revolves around soccer. Her friends, her future, and her father's intense expectations are all wrapped up in the beautiful game. But after she incites a fight during playoffs with her long-time rival, Leticia Ortiz, everything she's been working toward seems to disappear. Embarrassed and desperate to be anywhere but home, Vale escapes to her beloved childhood soccer camp for a summer of relaxation and redemption...only...
91) Breakaway
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grade soccer star LJ befriends Tabitha, who could not be more different from her, LJ learns to curb her competitive nature, which has been slowly alienating her friends.
93) One on one
Author
Series
Soccer Sisters volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At soccer camp, Soccer Sisters Makena and Val not only help Chloe build her self-confidence on the field, they also help her cope with arch rival Skylar Wrangle's bullying.
Author
Publisher
Yali Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Mina loves to play soccer all year round. Nothing comes close to it. But when the monsoon arrives, Mina is stuck indoors and she can't help feeling restless and bored. Her ammi doesn't understand. The doodhwalla doesn't understand. That's when Mina decides she'll find ways of chasing away the clouds herself. In doing so, she makes an unexpected discovery. Soccer will never be the same again for Mina! In a charming story that any kid who loves a sport...
Author
Series
Publisher
Restless Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A one-of-a-kind, uplifting picture book about a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field-translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic. Daniel and Ismail, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, don't know each other yet, but they have more in common than they know. They live in the same city and have the same birthday, and this year they get the same presents: a traditional scarf-for Daniel a tallit and for Ismail a keffiyeh-and...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new girl has joined Lola Levine's second-grade class. When they get off on the wrong foot, they are forced to spend time together ... and learn they have more in common than they thought"--
Author
Series
Katarina Ballerina volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At ballet summer camp in Washington, DC, Katarina meets Ricky, who has endless talent for dance as well as for soccer. When Ricky returns home to London, England, Katarina's pen pal letters add support as Ricky tries to follow his passion and not others' opinions as he chooses between soccer and dance.
98) Reds or Jets?
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Del and Jed are ready to play soccer for their teams the Jets and the Reds. Which team will win on a sunny day at the beach? Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short e sound combined with selected consonant letters."--
Author
Series
Soccer Sisters volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Val feels left out when her soccer teammates focus on boys rather than soccer, and when Jessie tries to push her out she considers leaving the Brookville Breakers.
100) Ten thousand tries
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni starts eighth grade determined to be master of his universe, but learns he cannot control everything on the soccer field, in his friendships, and especially in facing his father's incurable disease.
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