"Emma, who is deaf and wears a cochlear implant, loves playing soccer with her friends Izzie and Chen, but when Izzie gets discouraged and wants to quit, Emma and Chen take the time to show her that improvement comes through practice. Includes discussion questions, writing prompts, an ASL fingerspelling chart, and a sign language guide"--Title verso page.

El entrenador Rus está buscando un arquero para el próximo gran partido de fútbol. Pedro quiere el puesto, pero teme ser demasiado lento y demasiado pequeño. Solo puede hacer un cosa: ¡practicar! ¿Podrá Pedro lograr su gran objetivo? Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all his friends come over to help him practice before the tryout.

Sometimes tricky situations happen out of the blue, and this tale displays the importance of helping others when you least expect to be needed. On his way to training, Swish the Shark encounters a net full of fish who are stuck and likely to be eaten soon. Instead of ignoring them, Swish gets more helpers, and they ultimately work together to assist the fish in need. With charming illustrations and achievable text, readers are immersed into...

Finding a group of friends can be difficult. Sometimes we feel like we don't fit in, or that we're somehow scaring others off. But this story shows readers that you just have to be yourself and the right group of friends will make themselves known, even if it takes some time. Right when Swish the Shark thought he had met every fish in the sea, he encountered Felix the Octopus who invited Swish to soccer practice. He eventually meets even more friends!...

Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.

Tiggs and Jess, who need to raise money for soccer camp, get a job offer to clean a possibly haunted house that will give them the money they need, but what they find inside the house might trap them there forever.

Souhaitant s'initier à un sport d'été, Lucy et ses amis se rencontrent sur le terrain de soccer pour leur première partie à trois contre trois. Grâce à Nick l'entraîneur, Lucy et les autres membres de l'équipe des Bleus s'initient à quelques jeux et se préparent à affronter les Rouges. La série « Lucy fait du sport » est conçue pour encourager les enfants à être actifs, à faire du sport et à avoir des loisirs. Dans Lucy joue au...

As a defender for the Fraser High girls soccer team, Addie used to be ready for anything. There was no play she couldn't shut down. But now the biggest threat on the field is one of her teammates . . . who is also Addie's former best friend. When Eva Riley moved to town, she and Addie became super close. But when Eva wanted to be more than friends, Addie put soccer first instead. Suddenly Eva's sending Addie mean notes. Then she's screwing up Addie's...

Alyssa Duncan is a beast on the soccer field. As the Copperheads' starting goalie, she might be the difference between a state title and total defeat--and she likes it that way. When a concussion takes Alyssa out of the lineup, her rising-star teammate Becca Miller takes over in goal. Becca turns out to be pretty good, too. And what seemed like a temporary change might not be so temporary after all. Will Alyssa heal in time for playoffs? And even...

Murphy's mother has just moved him and their cat, Mousetrap, back to the reserve in Port Alberni. Although he belongs to the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Murphy is sure that he won't fit in, and he worries about Mousetrap, who has always been an indoor cat. When a bunch of local boys drag him to their soccer practice, put him in goal and pelt him with balls, he believes that his worst fear has come true. However, he seems to be discovering a new talent...