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Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In this history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. He takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified the rules that we still play by today and to Latin America, where the "crazy English" spread the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Give it Tom. Every lunchtime, every P.E. game, bouncing off the walls for years. Give it Tom. Give it Tom. Tom Pearman has been tipped for football stardom all his young life. But after spending his teenage years training with a Premier League team, the bright future he imagined for himself disappears from one day to the next when he finds out his club has decided to let him go. Now he's nineteen, away from home, playing for a tiny club in a town...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the world's most popular sport, soccer is played everywhere from dusty streets and schoolyards to massive stadiums. Readers will learn the rules of the game, get a close look at the layout of a soccer pitch, and find out what role different positions play on a team. They will also learn how to improve their ball-handling abilities and meet some of the biggest soccer stars of yesterday and today.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and photographs help young readers learn all about playing soccer in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read. It's the first day of soccer practice, and it's going to be great! In this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, beginning readers will learn that soccer players wear cleats, do warm ups, and try to kick the ball into the goal. Score! The best part about soccer is being on a team and making new friends. Young readers getting...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"From the World Cup to the Olympics, from Mia Hamm to Carli Lloyd to Alex Morgan, here is the ultimate guide to Women's Soccer for young sports fans from an award-winning sports journalist. The moment the U.S. Women's Soccer team won the World Cup in 1999, the team's--and the sport's--popularity exploded in America. The Americans' electrifying rise to the top marked the biggest women's sporting event in our nation's history. Players like Mia Hamm...
49) Goal!
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Where there's a ball . . . there will always be someone who wants to play soccer. Whether in Tanzania or Togo, Burma or Brazil, children love soccer. GOAL! celebrates the sport's power to bridge cultural divides and bring together the many and diverse people of the world. Filled with fun facts and striking photos, this book is a poetic snapshot of soccer around the globe, available just in time for the 2014 World Cup!"--
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Lionel Messi ha vuelto a ser feliz. Y ¿para qué jugar al fútbol si no es para ser feliz? Con cuatro Champions League, la Copa América 2021, el récord de goles de un jugador para una selección sudamericana y el pase al PSG, el mejor futbolista del planeta ya le había insuflado nueva vida a su carrera, pero ahora además ha conquistado el único gran trofeo que le faltaba: la Copa del Mundo. Para conocer y comprender a esta figura extraordinaria,...
52) Encyclopedia blazertannica: a suboptimal guide to soccer, America's "sport of the future" since 1972
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the wildly popular soccer pundits, a hilarious and informative guide to the ever-more popular game. For more than a decade, the "Men in Blazers"--two balding transplants from Britain named Rog and Davo-- have stood at the center of our growing national obsession with soccer. Hundreds of thousands of fans tune in weekly to their podcast and television broadcast to get their analysis of the previous week's matches and soccer news. But for all...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team for ten years, even though she's only 26. But when she's sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn't-a gregarious jokester...
54) Defending Taylor
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taylor, a senator's daughter, was captain of the soccer team and contender for valedictorian at her private school, but gets kicked out, sent to a rival high school, and soon she is falling for her brother's friend Ezra.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs look at stats and facts of the game of soccer.
"A feast of football facts, plus everything you need to know about action on the pitch and behind the scenes at the stadium. This book is a visual guide to the world's most popular game. From the rules of the game to the top tournaments - the information leaps right off the page! Learn about historic ball games and the birth of football. Gen up on the laws of the game and the new...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With profiles of over 65 of the world's best soccer nations, the biggest names in club soccer and key competitions, this is the ultimate visual guide to the world's greatest sport. Inside the pages of this comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to soccer, you'll find: a fresh graphic style that illustrates everything from beach soccer to block tackles; stats and fact boxes that profile players, managers, fans, soccer trivia, national teams and...
57) Soccer
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Examines all aspects of the game of soccer, including its history, rules, soccer skills, tactics, equipment, famous players, and playing fields.
58) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Chip, then kick it in the air Take off like a Belgian hare Shoot it left, but watch it curve All he can do is observe"-- cover page 4.
"Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read."-- provided by publisher....
59) Who is Pelé?
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The story of a poor boy from Brazil who became the greatest soccer player of all time and one of the most important athletes of the twentieth century! His parents may have named him Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but to the rest of the world, he is known as Peľ. The now-retired professional soccer forward stunned Brazil when he began playing for the Santos soccer club at age fifteen. He then went on to captivate the world when he joined his country's...
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