Ten : a soccer story / Shamini Flint.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 155 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780544850019
- 0544850017
- 10 : a soccer story
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Flint Shamini | Available | 33111008798007 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Goal-oriented Maya has two main concerns: getting support and permission for girls' soccer and keeping her unpredictable biracial family together. At the same time she's trying to fit in at school, figure out who her true friends are, and dodge the criticisms of her traditional East Indian grandmother and the other relatives who say girls should be quiet and obedient. Maya's witty, observant first-person narrative will make readers want her on their team, and they'll cheer her on as she discovers that winning is great--but losing doesn't mean defeat.
"First published in Singapore in 2009 by Sunbear Publishing Pte. Ltd."--Copyright page.
In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys' game."