#hardcover #soccer #fiction #ya #debutantes

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

"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!"--

The Season

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #juvenilefiction #novel #soccer #popular #likenew #neverread #liztigelaar

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Two feuding sisters from Malibu, California, take their rivalry to the soccer field when both girls make the high school team.

PrettyTough

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#hardcover #debuante #fiction #soccer #modernprideandprejudice

Texas

Oklahoma

Learning Soccer with Pele

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Rhode Island

A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together

In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state -- and ultimately national -- glory.

When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion began to heal old wounds. Taking readers behind the tumult of this controversial team -- and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding -- One Goal is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us.

One Goal

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#hardcover #soccer #games #youth 121 pages. A bit dated but in good condition and still relevant.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

The Soccer Book

#hardcover #memoir #hopesolo #soccer #olympics #youngreader

Maryland

The World Cup champion and double Olympic gold medalist shares her story in her own words!

In this young readers' edition of Hope Solo's exciting life story, adapted from Solo: A Memoir of Hope, the former starting goalkeeper for the U.S. women's national soccer team gives readers behind-the-scenes details of her life on and off the field.

Solo offers a fearless female role model for the next generation, driven to succeed on her own terms. Young fans will truly be inspired by Hope's repeated triumphs over adversity. Her relentless spirit has molded her into the person she is today--one of the most charismatic athletes in America.

Includes an exclusive Q&A with Hope!

Hope Solo: My Story Young Readers' Edition

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#paperback, #juvenilefiction, #scholastic, #soccer, #MeanLolaLevine

Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

Ohio

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world.”—USA Today Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, reveals for the first time her life both on and off the field. Guided by her personal journey into social justice, brimming with humor, humanity, and joy, she urges all of us to ask ourselves, What will you do with your one life? Only four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball, Megan Rapinoe developed a love – and clear talent – for the game at a young age. But it was her parents who taught her that winning was much less important than how she lived her life. From childhood on, Rapinoe always did what she could to stand up for what was right—even if it meant going up against people who disagreed. In One Life, Megan Rapinoe invites readers on a remarkable journey, looking back on both her victories and her failures, and pulls back the curtain on events we know only from the headlines. After the 2011 World Cup, discouraged by how few athletes were open about their sexuality, Rapinoe decided to come out publicly as gay and use her platform to advocate for marriage equality. Recognizing the power she had to bring attention to critical issues, in 2016 she took a knee during the national anthem in solidarity with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick to protest racial injustice and police brutality—the first high-profile white athlete to do so. The backlash was immediate, but it couldn’t compare to the overwhelming support. Rapinoe became a force of change. Here for the first time, Rapinoe reflects upon some of the most pivotal moments in her life and career – from her realization in college that she was gay, through the disputes with soccer coaches and officials over her decision to kneel, to the first time she met her now-fiancé WNBA champion Sue Bird, and up through suing the US Soccer Federation over gender discrimination and equal pay. Throughout, Rapinoe makes clear the obligation we all have to speak up, and the impact each of us can have on our communities. Deeply personal and inspiring, One Life reveals that real, concrete change lies within all of us, and asks: If we all have the same resource—this one precious life, made up of the decisions we make every day—what are you going to do? "One Life makes it clear that Rapinoe’s greatest accomplishments may ultimately come away from the soccer pitch. She’s a new kind of American hero."—San Francisco Chronicle

One Life

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#paperback #Fantasy #Football #Soccer #Keegan

Galactic Keegan

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#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #rapinoe #soccer ⚽️ 📚 

Kentucky

#hardcover #youngadult #fiction #ya #scifi #paperback #general #soccer 

California

A toxic coach finds himself outplayed by the high school girls on his team in this deeply suspenseful novel, which unspools over twenty-four hours through six diverse perspectives. Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight’s team sleepover, the girls are all about forging the bonds of trust, loyalty, and friendship necessary to win. Everything hinges on the midnight initiation ceremony—a beloved tradition and the only facet of being a Wildcat that the girls control. Until now. Coach—a handsome former college player revered and feared in equal measure—changes the plan and spins his team on a new adventure. One where they take a rival team’s mascot for a joyride, crash a party in their pajamas, break into the high school for the perfect picture. But as the girls slip out of their comfort zone, so do some long-held secrets. And just how far they’re willing to go for their team takes them all—especially Coach—by surprise. A testament to the strength and resilience of modern teenage girls, We Are the Wildcats will have readers cheering.

We Are the Wildcats

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New York

A Novel

The New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her "as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. She's the best we've got." Her newest thriller, Beneath the Bleeding, once again proves it to be so. Winner of the coveted CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing, McDermid reunites her popular investigating team of Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan in Beneath the Bleeding, as they search for the truth behind a horrific act of mass murder and wholesale destruction.

Beneath the Bleeding

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A little cover wear and creasing. Pages crisp and clean. Ships same or next day. SKU 100922003 #paperback #fiction #dbt-jf #youngadult #juvenilefiction #novel #soccer 

Slight wear around the edges. Red spots on the bottom edge. Pages crisp and clean. See photos for best description. Ships same or next day. SKU 110522008 #paperback #soccer 

Game and Parenting Essentials for Healthy Kids

With more than threee million youth soccer players in the United States, there are approximately an equal number of adults driving them to and from the field, too! As the popularity of soccer continues to boom, it's becoming a very common activity that can be a tool through which parents can share healthy life skills and attitudes with their school-age children. Soccer for Moms demystifies the rules of soccer for moms (and dads!) who may have never played the game themselves, and it provides useful instruction if they need to coach a game. Aside from actual rules of the game, “rules of life” are also shared and suggested in a friendly format. The book builds on the team-centered focus of soccer and also provides a wealth of useful information on improving kids' healthy life skills, such as nutrition, fitness, teamwork, relationships, discipline, sportsmanship, safety, and even fundraising. Parents will feel ready to "get in the game" when they're encouraged and empowered to share in their children's excitement by training and playing in their own leagues, as well as coaching and volunteering for their kids. This book fills a void in parenting information for normal, healthy school-age children and presents it in a comprehensive yet humorous guide to raising healthy soccer players from kindergarten to college.

Soccer for Moms

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #youngadultfiction #paperback #reesesbookclub #ya #soccer #furia #latinx

New Jersey

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020 A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library “An engrossing #OwnVoices novel.” —PopSugar “This book will set your dreams on fire . . . It’s fabulous.” — Reese Witherspoon A powerful contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. But the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her. Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.

Furia

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#hardcover #ya #youngadult #contemporary #soccer #sports #life #katspears 

Louisiana

From Kat Spears, author of Sway, comes a new novel that asks the question: when a group of four best friends begin to drift apart, what will it take to bring them back together?

Breakaway

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Tennessee

*MAGAZINE*

National Geographic 

North Carolina

Offers comprehensive information on soccer, including how to stay safe while playing, who the most important soccer clubs and associations in the world are, and profiles on some of the game's greatest players.

For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only

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#paperback #youngadult #fiction #romance #brothersbestfriend #contemporary #love #soccer #defendingtaylor #mirandakenneally

Taylor's always felt pressure to be perfect. That's what happens when you are a senator's daughter. So when she's kicked out of private school for covering for her boyfriend's not-so-legal behavior, she is devastated.Things go from bad to worse as she joins what used to be her rival soccer team at Hundred Oaks High. The only person who seems to understand all that she's going through is her older brother's best friend, Ezra. But Ezra has secrets of his own. Will Taylor repeat past mistakes, or can she score a fresh start?

Defending Taylor

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Connecticut

Things That Smart Players Do

An Amazon #1 Best-Seller!Named the #1 Soccer Book by Football.com.Named a Top 5 Book of the Year by the NSCAA Soccer Journal!Soccer iQ is the first book for soccer PLAYERS!In a world saturated with books about how to coach soccer, Dan Blank finally gives players a book on how to think it. Standing on two decades of collegiate coaching experience, Blank has catalogued soccer's most common mistakes and provides simple, connect-the-dots solutions to help players solve their soccer problems. Soccer IQ is soccer's first text book for players; an almanac of smarter soccer decisions intended to flatten out the learning curve. It covers everything from hunting rebounds to the value of the toe-ball; from playing in the rain to the world's dumbest foul. Blank tells his story from the familiar and humorous voice of a coach who has endured years of stress at the hands of his players. Written in plain-spoken language, Soccer IQ is an easy read and a quick-fix to the most common yet critically important soccer problems. Includes a bonus chapter on the college recruiting process. "Finally someone wrote this book! If every soccer player read Soccer IQ, every coach would be a lot happier." Mark Francis - Head Coach University of Kansas "Dan Blank has just written soccer's first definitive text book." Colin Carmichael - Head Coach Oklahoma State University"This book has immediately become required reading for my team. I'll take 30 copies." Steve Nugent - Head Coach UNC-Greensboro "Soccer IQ may the best practical soccer book I have ever read. There's no fluff. Just nuts and bolts principles that we teach every day. It'll solve a lot of your soccer problems." Steve Holeman - Head Coach University of Georgia

SoccerIQ

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A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's Sport of the Future Since 1972

Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica

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How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America





A Home on the Field is about faith, loyalty, and trust.It is a parable in the tradition of Stand and Deliver and Hoosiers--a story of one team and their accidental coach who became certain heroes to the whole community.

For the past ten years, Siler City, North Carolina, has been at the front lines of immigration in the interior portion of the United States. Like a number of small Southern towns, workers come from traditional Latino enclaves across the United States, as well as from Latin American countries, to work in what is considered the home of industrial-scale poultry processing. At enormous risk, these people have come with the hope of a better life and a chance to realize their portion of the American Dream.

But it isn't always easy. Assimilation into the South is fraught with struggles, and in no place is this more poignant than in the schools. When Paul Cuadros packed his bags and moved south to study the impact of the burgeoning Latino community, he encountered a culture clash between the long-time residents and the newcomers that eventually boiled over into an anti-immigrant rally featuring former Klansman David Duke.

It became Paul's goal to show the growing numbers of Latino youth that their lives could be more than the cutting line at the poultry plants, that finishing high school and heading to college could be a reality. He needed to find something that the boys could commit to passionately, knowing that devotion to something bigger than them would be the key to helping the boys find where they fit in the world. The answer was soccer.

But Siler City, like so many other small rural communities, was a football town, and long-time residents saw soccer as a foreign sport and yet another accommodation to the newcomers. After an uphill battle, the Jets soccer team at Jordan-Matthews High School was born. Suffering setbacks and heartbreak, the majority Latino team, in only three seasons and against all odds, emerged poised to win the state championship.

A Home on the Field

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Dust jacket is missing. Otherwise book is in great shape. #hardcover #soccer #sports #biography #johnharkes

Jonah Lisa Dyer; Stephen Dyer

The Season

Liz Tigelaar; Nicole Leigh Shepherd

PrettyTough

Jonah Lisa Dyer; Stephen Dyer

The Season

Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Learning Soccer with Pele

Amy Bass

One Goal

Richard Widdows

The Soccer Book

Hope Solo

Hope Solo: My Story Young Readers' Edition

Monica Brown

Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

Megan Rapinoe; Emma Brockes

One Life

Scott Innes

Galactic Keegan

Megan Rapinoe; Emma Brockes

One Life

Siobhan Vivian

We Are the Wildcats

Val McDermid

Beneath the Bleeding

Liz Tigelaar; Nicole Leigh Shepherd

PrettyTough

Plain White Press Staff (Editor); Kerrie Paige

Soccer for Moms

Yamile Saied Méndez

Furia

Kat Spears

Breakaway

National Geographic

National Geographic

Erin Downing

For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only

Miranda Kenneally

Defending Taylor

Dan Blank

SoccerIQ

Roger Bennett; Michael Davies

Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica

Paul Cuadros

A Home on the Field

John Harkes with Denise Kiernan

Captain For Life