Ten-year-old Bundy finds his performance and attitude as captain of his soccer team suffering when he is saddled with a babysitter at home.

Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a...

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Violet's team is ready for the big soccer game, but the other team has a secret weapon -- Sport. Sport thinks her team should always win, and she'll cheat to help them score goals. Will Violet and Sprite be able to defeat Sport's magic?

Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.

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

Fourteen-year-old Amanda and her best friend Lena start high school looking forward to playing on the varsity soccer team, but when Lena makes varsity and Amanda only makes junior varsity, their long friendship rapidly changes.

"Owen loves soccer, but isn't the best at playing it. After a particularly disastrous day on the field, Owen is benched. He is feeling so low that he doesn't notice the ball rolling away from him until it's too late. In his effort to get it back, he discovers that he has more skills than he realizes"--

Pictures and rhyming text describe the drills and scrimmages of a team at soccer practice.

"In the second selection's rival battles--where the winners can choose one player from the losing team--Isagi and Nagi have just lost Bachira to Rin Itoshi and the other top strikers. Now they must prove the strength of their individual abilities in a fight against Shouei Barou, the top scoring player in Wing 5. If they lose, they'll be at risk of disqualification...As Isagi takes the fight to King Barou, he's aiming to end up on the side of the prodigies"--...