"Sam encourages May to participate in a soccer game"--

At their first soccer game, the Pinksters rivals, the Ravens make fun of the pink soccer ball.

Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats. Includes a brief history of soccer and words for soccer around the world.

Playing on different teams during winter league soccer tests the friendship of a close-knit group of twelve-year-old girls.

Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

A young boy finds hope when he is given an old soccer ball to play with in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake.

Although Froggy is very excited when his Dream Team plays for the city soccer championship, he makes a mistake on the field that almost costs the team the game.

Fiona the hippo and her friends find a soccer ball and decide to play a game.

As her third-grade class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy enthusiastically plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.

Told in two voices, Jeff stands by his teammate, Andi, who fights to get on the sixth-grade soccer team and then must face opponents who target her for being a girl.