Central Kansas Library System

Each member of the South Orange River seventh-grade soccer team has qualities of excellence, but not on the soccer field.

"Rob Lasher is just an ordinary soccer player, good at the game, but not great. Then one afternoon, he saves his coach's life in front of all his teammates. Suddenly, he's the team's hero, when the squad manages to find a replacement coach, he's back on the field with his teammates again. So why isn't Rob happy?"--front inside flap.

Mark, center for his middle school's soccer team, the Scorpions, must cope with his parents' divorce and a teammate who holds a grudge against him.

When Carrie is disappointed not to make the school soccer team, she turns her attention to creating a science fair project.