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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) 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.
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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.
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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.
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.
13) 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.
16) Blow out
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Lacy Sheridan is worried. Her knee injury has healed over winter, but she fears what might still be wrong with it and how much she could get hurt in the new soccer season. Worse, her spot on the team is being jacked by Raven McAlister, a girl who doesn't fear any injury.
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) Arcady's goal
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Twelve-year-old orphan Arcady copes with his difficult life in a Soviet children's home by spending as much time as possible playing soccer. When Ivan Ivanych, a man who lost his wife to the Stalinist purges, takes Arcady in and offers to coach him, it transforms both of their lives in profound ways.