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The Comeback

by Peter Aronson

Soccer ambitions meet difficult choices off the field

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Soccer ambitions meet difficult choices off the field

Teresa Rodriguez’s pursuit of a first soccer championship runs alongside family pressures: she carries responsibilities at home, worries about her father’s return, and faces the prospect of her best friend Gabby being sent to a foster home. On the middle-school Tornadoes, Teresa takes on the captaincy as the team moves through its league season. A confrontation with racism on the field adds another challenge, and the possibility of facing Gabby in the championship brings the story’s friendship and competition threads together. As the second book in a middle-grade trilogy, The Comeback links a season’s sporting goal with questions about loyalty, responsibility, and what victory can mean.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in soccer-centered fiction.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about friendship and family responsibilities.
  • Readers seeking middle-grade fiction that addresses racism in sports.

Themes

Soccer and competitionFriendshipFamily responsibilityRacism in sportsRedefining victory

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Book overview

In The Comeback, the second book in the middle-grade trilogy, soccer star Teresa Rodriguez, now 13, is still striving for her first soccer championship, but her life now is even more complicated. She struggles with family responsibility; her best friend, Gabby, being shipped to a foster home; and the uncertainty about whether her father will ever return home. Meanwhile, once the season starts, Teresa is the captain as the middle-school Tornadoes tear through the league and Teresa shines. When Teresa's team faces racism on the field, this time she knows how to deal with it. In the end, Teresa may face Gabby in the championship game. How she and Gabby handle this will be the best lesson in friendship either could learn - and may put a new spin on how you define victory.

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