Alecia's Challenge
Alecia's Challenge

Author: Sandra Diersch

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 155277645X

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Alecia's soccer team, the Vancouver Burrards, is the one stable thing in her life. Everything else is new or changing: a new school, a new stepfather. When Anne, Alecia's friend and the Burrards' best player, decides to quit playing, Alecia decides to fight to keep the team together. She soon learns, however, that life's hardest matches are fought off the soccer pitch. Alecia's Challenge shows how the struggles and joys of life and sport are intertwined.

Soccer Showdown
Soccer Showdown

Author: John Danakas

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1552778371

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Lizzie is named the new captain of the boys' soccer team--but some of her teammates aren't playing nice.

Offside!
Offside!

Author: Sandra Diersch

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2011-08-10

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1552778517

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Alecia's Vancouver soccer team, the Burrards, are a good, hard-fighting squad--her teammates are her friends and her coach is her loving step-dad. When Lexi, a new kid, joins the team, her bad attitude makes things fall apart fast. Alecia decides to find out what makes Lexi so difficult, and to hold the team together, on the field and off. Offside! shows how embracing unexpected change can make teams, and players, stronger.

Play On
Play On

Author: Sandra Diersch

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1552777413

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Alecia is about to be adopted by a new stepfather, her soccer team, the Burrards, is preparing for the championship game, and a cute new boy has arrived on the scene. But there are even more changes on the horizon. The team's game is suffering as the players get distracted by other interests. If the Burrards are to make it to the finals, they must renew their commitment to their sport and to each other. Play On is the satisfying conclusion to the acclaimed series that also includes Offside! and Alecia's Challenge.

Trading Goals
Trading Goals

Author: Trevor Kew

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1552776190

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When Vicky and her mom pack up and move across the city to a new neighborhood, it means switching schools and leaving behind her best friend and her soccer team. Now she'll have to try out for goalkeeper with her former rivals, deal with racism at her new school, and struggle to maintain loyalty to her old friends while making new ones. Vicky is awesome in net and tries to keep focused on her goals and the game she loves, but it's not easy without the support of her friends and family.

Breakaway
Breakaway

Author: Trevor Kew

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2011-09-08

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1552778630

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A star hockey player uprooted from his small town has to decided if he shares his father's assumptions about race and soccer, and if not, find the courage to stand up for his own beliefs.

Delaying the Game
Delaying the Game

Author: Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1552775720

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For the first time, Kaleigh is playing on an all-girls hockey team. Never a "girlygirl," she misses her former teammates, has trouble following the different rules of girls' hockey, and gets frustrated when her fellow players get distracted from their game. That is, until Shane comes along. Soon the attention of this older boy is taking up too much of her time, and Kaleigh finds herself unsure whether she can balance hockey, her friendships, and this new dating-life. [Fry Reading Level - 3.4

Home Court Advantage
Home Court Advantage

Author: Sandra Diersch

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2012-02-22

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1552776859

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When Debbie is on the basketball court she feels free and alive. But while she's a good player she's also an aggressive one, and rough tactics get her in trouble more than once. Off the court she's different from other girls, a foster child without "real" parents of her own. When Debbie learns she's going to be adopted, her world is turned upside down. Until, that is, she's accused of stealing from a teamate. From then on, it's an uphill battle to prove herself to her new parents and her team. Home Court Advantage shows how young players' behavior on the court and their lives off it are inextricably linked. [Fry Reading Level - 3.2

Soccer Star!
Soccer Star!

Author: Jacqueline Guest

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2012-06-27

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 155277628X

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Samantha Aqsarniq Keyes is used to a life on the move. Her military family has been transferred across Canada, and she's grown up with stories of her Inuit ancestors exploring the far north. For Sam, soccer has been the one constant in her life. But now that she's thirteen, her home base isn't the only thing that's changing. Sam longs to show up Carly, her school's reigning soccer star, but Sam's new interest in theatre is taking up a lot of time. Does she have the time to practice her sport and be the lead in the school play? And just how far will she go to prove to her parents that she can handle more than one extracurricular activity? Soccer Star! is a novel about big ambitions and tough choices.

Out of Bounds
Out of Bounds

Author: Sylvia Gunnery

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2012-02-22

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1552776816

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Jay Hirtle plays on the basketball team at Richmond Academy in a small rural Nova Scotian town. The team to beat is Centreville, where star player Mike Murphy is seen as Richmond's number one opponent. After the Hirtle house is destroyed by fire, Jay's family moves in with his grandfather and the kids must switch schools until the end of the school year. Jay has a choice: give up a basketball season, or play alongside his former enemy on the Centreville team.