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6) 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.
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As the goalie for his soccer team, the Titans, Berk is usually confident and the star of the team. But when a new boy, Ryan, moves to town and joins the Titans, the coach decides to move Berk into a new position. Now Berk is worried about how the team will make it through the season.
9) Furia
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11th-12th Grade Reading
Formidable Females in YA
YA Novels in English and in Spanish/Novelas para jovenes en inglés y español
Formidable Females in YA
YA Novels in English and in Spanish/Novelas para jovenes en inglés y español
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Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
10) 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.
11) Out of sync
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While growing up Maddie and Dayton have been completely in sync on the soccer field, but as they become sophomores Dayton decides she would rather be partying than playing.
12) Offside
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With her school projects and her brothers and sister to look after, Faith Patel feels like she never has time for her passion--soccer. However, Coach Berg has recently been giving her special attention, and Faith is worried about the feelings for him she is unwillingly developing. When another girl on the team catches on to the special treatment, the rumors she spreads could completely ruin Faith's life.
15) 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.
17) Under pressure
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When Elise learns that a University of North Carolina scout will be watching and her soccer team play in a few weeks, she resolves to do her best in hopes of getting into the same college her parents attended. Upon noticing some of her teammates are doing better than her, however, she begins taking performance-enhancing drugs and descends down a dangerous path.
18) Booked
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In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander's Newbery winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Longlist nominee, now in a graphic novel edition featuring art from Dawud Anyabwile.
Twelve-year-old Nick 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.
...20) Defending Taylor
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Taylor, a senator's daughter, was captain of the soccer team and contender for valedictorian at her private school, but gets kicked out, sent to a rival high school, and soon she is falling for her brother's friend Ezra.
Taylor's always pushed herself to be perfect, but one impulsive lie to cover for her boyfriend and she's kicked out of private school. Starting over at Hundred Oaks High it's hard to fit in and play on a soccer team that used to...