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Sep 13, 2022 | ISBN 9781984836939 | Middle Grade (10 and up) PREORDER
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Sep 13, 2022 | ISBN 9781984836939 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Sep 07, 2021 | ISBN 9781984836922 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Sep 07, 2021 | ISBN 9781984836946 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Sep 07, 2021 | ISBN 9780593454459 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
337 Minutes
In this follow up to Triple Threat, New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica takes us to the soccer field in another empowering story–now in paperback!Fresh off her football victory as QB, twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle is on cloud nine. But with football season over, Alex is ready to get back on the field on the spring for soccer. But after tryouts, with Alex back on her old team, she and her teammates find out that athletic funding has been cut in Orrville, and girls soccer is one of the first teams to go. Now, Alex knows playing soccer is about more than just healthy competition—it’s about fighting for their right to play. Why should the girls team be first to get cut? So the soccer girls hatch a plan. The girls team versus the boys team; if the girls can raise enough money, they will fund their own season. But Alex soon realizes that her plan to save the girls team has consequences. Will Alex be able to figure out a way so that everyone gets the chance to play? Or will the girls be the ones left out?
In this follow up to Triple Threat, New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica takes us to the soccer field in another empowering story about dismantling sexism in sports.Fresh off her football victory as QB, Alex Carlisle is on cloud nine. But with football season ending, Alex is ready to get back on the field in the spring. Ideally she’d like to play soccer again, but as she’s about to sign up for tryouts, she hears word around the school that they’re planning to cut athletic funding. and girls soccer might be first to go. Now, Alex knows playing soccer is about more than just healthy competition. It’s about fighting for their right to play. Why should the girls team be first to get cut? It’s an injustice that seems to follow Alex through her middle school athletic career, and it needs to stop. The soccer girls get together and hatch a plan. A battle of the sexes. The girls team versus the boys team. Whoever wins gets to play in the spring. But Alex soon realizes that’s not the right approach. Everyone deserves to play. So instead, she hatches a new plan–charging tickets to the game to raise money for the school’s athletic program so that no one is left on the sidelines.
Mike Lupica is a prominent sports journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of more than forty works of fiction and non-fiction. A longtime friend to Robert B. Parker, he was selected by the Parker estate to continue the Sunny Randall and… More about Mike Lupica
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