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Soccer Team Upset
Book · 2009
Soccer Team Upset
8–12Best for kids★ 4.0
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Tyler's team falls apart when his best friends leave for an elite travel club, and an older English fan tells him about the United States' shocking 1-0 win over England at the 1950 World Cup. Each book ends with a factual sports-history note.
Why we picked it
Kids get a true World Cup story alongside the fiction, and it handles the very real youth-soccer moment of friends leaving for a travel team.
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