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8–12Best for kids★ 4.4
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It is 1999, Mia Tang is in sixth grade, and the Women's World Cup is being played in her own state. She talks her way into meeting Mia Hamm while juggling a failing PE grade, a family motel, and a school that keeps underestimating her.
Why we picked it
It is the best middle-grade novel about what the 1999 USWNT meant to a kid watching, and it puts a girl who is not a natural athlete at the center. Parents who remember the Rose Bowl final get to hand their kid the story from the inside.
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