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Ten Thousand Tries
Book · 2021
Ten Thousand Tries
8–12Best for kids★ 4.4
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Golden Maroni is captain of his soccer team, worships Messi, and believes ten thousand repetitions will make anything come true, including holding off his father's ALS. The season and the diagnosis run on the same clock.
Why we picked it
It is one of the few middle-grade novels that gets the interior life of an obsessive young player right, down to the touches counted in the driveway. It also handles what happens when effort is not enough, which every competitive kid meets eventually.
