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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a...
2) Soccer star
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Poppy has joined her best friend Millie's soccer team--she likes the uniforms and the after-game snacks, but she is not pleased with all the required practices.
3) Select
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Alex loves playing soccer, and she's good at it, too. Very good. When her skills land her a free ride to play for Select, an elite soccer club, it feels like a huge opportunity. Joining Select could be the key to a college scholarship anda bright future--one that Alex's family can't promise her. But as the team gets better and better, her new coach pushes the players harder and harder, until soccer starts to feel more like punishment...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Un thriller futbolístico con motivo del Mundial 2018 que cuenta la historia de un club de fútbol donde el menor de sus escándalos es el asesinato de su delantero, el fichaje estrella de la temporada. Homofobia, drogas, machismo, amaños de partidos, negocios turbios y un asesinato, convierten a esta novela en el libro maldito del fútbol. Porque .. ¿sabemos realmente las cosas que ocurren en los despachos de un club de fútbol? Un thriller no...
5) Head to head
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"With characters who display diversity in ethnicity and leadership style, this book focuses on empowering girls to work together and develop leadership qualities. Readers will instantly recognize the struggle of dealing with someone they don't get along with as main character Emika struggles to connect with her co-captain on the soccer team named Maram. Rather than portraying others as inherently difficult and avoidable, Head to Head instead illuminates...
Author
Series
The Wild Soccer Bunch volume 1
Publisher
Sole Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the winter snows finally melt, Kevin and his friends The Wild Bunch go to their soccer field to play. There they find a rival group called The Unbeatables has taken over. Kevin and his friends challenge The Unbeatables to a match that will decide which team gets to keep the field for themselves.