Soccer Chick Rules
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Tess's love in life is soccer. When she finds out that all sports at her school will be cut unless the community votes for a tax levy, Tess will do anything to rally votes. She's even joining forces with a cheerleader to help spread the word and raise funds. Throughout the campaign to save soccer, Tess is playing her heart out on the soccer field and struggling to make passing grades in her classes. But if the levy doesn't pass, will it all have been for nothing? Find out in Dawn FitzGerald's Soccer Chick Rules.
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FitzGerald (Getting in the Game) offers another sports novel, this one narrated by a likable eighth grader who admits that "sports are the only reason I bother to attend school. Everything else is just warm-up or pregame." Tess gets involved up to the top of her soccer socks as a vote approaches involving a levy determining whether or not school sports will be funded. In her somewhat contrived words, "when the school district put the athletic programs on the line-foul move, by the way-I figured a jockette's got to stand up for something other than a pop fly." Tess and her best friend, goalie of the boy's soccer team, join a student committee (chaired by a grating cheerleader) to lobby for a pro-sports vote. This effort involves canvassing the neighborhood and humorous run-ins with Tess's neighbor-a boy- and dance-obsessed girl who, much to Tess's chagrin, begins dating her older brother Mark. As Tess campaigns tirelessly for the levy, Mark accuses her of having a one-track mind, leading her to comment that she has "a two-track mind," since her other fixation is helping her team win the last soccer game of the season. Though FitzGerald (a soccer coach) adds plenty of swift on-field action as Tess's team heads toward this goal, non sports-minded kids may tire of the tale's two-track theme. On the winning end, the narrative features credible characters, wise-cracking teenspeak and an unexpected final twist. Ages 11-up.
