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1) Furia
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Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan lives a double life in Rosario, Argentina. At home, she's the dutiful daughter living within her family's narrow expectations, but on the field, she's La Furia, a soccer player with incredible skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila finally gets the chance to see how far her talent can take her; hopefully she'll get an athletic scholarship to a North American university....
2) Booked
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"Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams"--OCLC.
4) Kick
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Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
5) Soccer time!
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In rhyming verse, active children learn the fundamentals of soccer.
6) Tangerine
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Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
7) Soccer duel
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Team rivalry threatens to spoil a budding friendship between a showy soccer player, Bryce, and soft-spoken but talented Renny.
9) Compulsion
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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.
10) Defending champ
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Seventh grader Alex Carlisle had a successful football season as quarterback of the middle school boys' team, and now she wants to play soccer with her old team. However, she learns that because of a lack of funding, the girls' team is going to be cut. The girls devise a plan to play the boys' team and raise enough money to fund their own season. But when the plan goes awry, Alex will have to figure out how to get everyone a chance to play.
11) Tangerine
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Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
13) The field
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Children form teams, build a pitch, and play a joyous game of soccer, in a book with English and Creole (as spoken in Saint Lucia) vocabulary words.
15) Benchwarmers
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Told in two voices, Jeff stands by his teammate, Andi, who fights to get on the sixth-grade soccer team and then must face opponents who target her for being a girl.
17) In the zone
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Devin, a seventh-grader and co-captain of the soccer team, is worried that her and her friends' issues will keep them from being "in the zone" while playing.
19) Goalkeeper goof
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David likes soccer, but he does not like being goalie, so when it is his turn at the net, he tries a new trick. He is ready to even the score.
20) Under pressure
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Devin is happy to reunite with her soccer teammates for the spring season, but several girls are feeling the pressure of high expectations. They need to pull themselves together before the first game if they want to succeed.