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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.
42) 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.
43) 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.
45) Star striker
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Katie Flanagan was a star striker on her old school's soccer team. But at Peabody, there is no girls' soccer team. The school district allows Katie to try out for the boys' team. Having a girl play on the boys' team causes some conflict. Can Katie overcome these barriers?
46) 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....
47) 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...
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Time out! Simon got Max Brutus's prized World Cup soccer ball stuck in the tallest tree in Picasso Park! Now he's in more trouble than a tater tot in ketchup. Can his friends at Table 5 help him get the ball before the big game? Or has Simon's luck maxed out?
51) Spotlight soccer
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Thirteen-year-old Franco dreams of playing professional soccer, but the team in his new school is terrible, and nobody on the team, including the coach, seems to care--Franco has always been a pass-first, team-first player, but persuading this bunch ball-hogs to play the right way may be more than he can handle.
52) Soccer longshot
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Matty is the captain of the local soccer club, the Strikers, but he needs a girl named Lola and a group of streetballers to teach him to play with flare and intensity.
55) Goal!
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In a dangerous alley in a township in South Africa, the strength and unity which a group of young friends feel while playing soccer keep them safe when a gang of bullies arrives to cause trouble.
56) Sabotage season
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Just when Devin's soccer team, the Kicks, begins to set its eyes on a spot in the playoffs, unusual and unfortunate events begin occurring that set the team back. Believing that something suspicious is going on, Devin decides to investigate and determine whether someone is intentionally sabotaging their team.
57) 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.
58) 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.
59) The recruit
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Tessa's role as the star player on her high school soccer team is her best hope of getting her into the college she wants to attend. But achieving her dreams of a scholarship could come with an ultimatum--ditch her high school boyfriend and join a snobby sorority--two things Tessa would rather not do.