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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.
3) 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.
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Seventeen-year-old Valentina jeopardizes her future when she gets into an altercation with her rival, Leticia, during a soccer game, so the two girls must co-captain a soccer team to redeem themselves and what starts as a shaky alliance of necessity blossoms into something more.
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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...
7) Shut out
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In this modern reimagining of Arispophanes' Lysistrata, when they get fed up with the violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can.
8) Breakaway
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Adam, a star hockey player, moves to the city with his family and finds himself not fitting in, until a new friend introduces him to soccer, but Adam's father does not approve of the game.
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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.
11) Exposure
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Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello.
12) Zombie XI
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"Football-crazy Leonard sits on the substitutes' bench of the Ducie High School XI, but is never asked to play. Then everything changes. After a game near a nuclear power plant, a weird energy passes through Leonard, and that night he is visited by zombies . . .The ghostly players from the winning 1966 England World Cup team tell him that if he follows their instructions, not only will he get off the bench, but Ducie High XI will start to take control....
13) Soccerland
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Flora Dupre has a chance to fulfill a life-long dream and keep the promise she made to her mother before losing her to cancer when Flora receives an invitation to tryout for the Under-15 US Girls' National Soccer Team at the International Sports Academy, but a family tragedy forces Flora to reexamine her priorities and determine what soccer means to her.
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"After their adventures in training and fundraising, it's time for the first round of the Wallabies' first tournament--though it's far from a walk in the park. Onda and the rest of the team with face off against Saitama, an undefeated team with a cadre of star players. Can they pull out an underdog victory, or will the path to revenge against Kunogi disappear before it begins?"--Back cover.
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"Warabi faces their first challenge since the humiliating exhibition loss to Kunogi. After training, earning new uniforms, and sparring with the boys' team for practice time, they have their eyes fixed on revenge--and now it's finally time for them to start showing what they're made of as a team. But when the first hurdle on the road to the Newcomer's tourney proves a bit more difficult than expected, Onda and crew will have to look for help from...