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41) On the ball
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Owen loves soccer, but isn't the best at playing it. After a particularly disastrous day on the field, Owen is benched. He is feeling so low that he doesn't notice the ball rolling away from him until it's too late. In his effort to get it back, he discovers that he has more skills than he realizes"--
42) Soccer stand-off
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Ethan Isaac is looking forward to the soccer season, but he gets a shock when he finds out that their new coach is Ms. Brezinka, his tough seventh grade science teacher--some of the players quit the team, but Ethan does not have that option, and he soon learns that Ms. Brezinka is as demanding a soccer coach as she was a teacher.
43) Sabotage season
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Devin and the rest of the team must figure out who is trying to sabotage them before the playoffs start"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Meg and her friends are playing in the championship soccer match to see who will win the gold medal. However, by half-time, the medal had disappeared. See if you can solve the mystery before Meg, using clues found in the text and illustrations.
46) Shaken up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
A California earthquake is just the first in a series of chain of events that shakes Devin's confidence: she fails a test in a subject she knows well, her crush seems to have his attention on another girl, and worst of all, her soccer game is off, so now Devin, the girl who usually inspires confidence in her friends and teammates, will have to turn to them for support.
48) Win or lose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Devin's team thinks she is taking too much credit for their winning streak and she must keep the team together"--
49) Surprise kick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cody Ross considers himself a champion at soccer--video-game soccer, that is--but now that his parents have taken away his toys and insisted that he join a team he is finding out that he has a lot to learn about soccer, teamwork and friendship.
Author
Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When new student Max challenges Henry for the position of goalie on the soccer team, he must decide whether using the Book of Spells would make him a cheater.
53) Saving the team
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
Author
Series
Wild Willie mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
With some help from his detective partner King Kyle in Cleveland, Wild Willie and his friend Lucy figure out how to turn their soccer team into winners.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Alex really wants to make his middle school soccer team this year, but Jake, the class bully, keeps taunting him with his past failures--until Errol, a new student from Scotland, teaches him the importance of practice and teamwork.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 136
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A talented young soccer player in Greenfield is given the honor of being a child mascot at an international soccer tournament in Brazil, but when an anonymous letter insists that she doesn't deserve to go, the Aldens investigate"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Paula está frustada: ha jugado con un equipo mixto de fútbol desde hace años pero ahora, que ya está un poco mayor, no podrá seguir haciéndolo. Paula no se dará por vencida. Junto con sus amigas, fundarán el primer equipo de fútbol femenino del colegio: 1. CF Solo para chicas.
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