Alecia's Challenge

By Sandra Diersch

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Sports, fiction, Girls, fiction, Soccer, Children's fiction, Friendship

Description: Alecia's soccer team, the Vancouver Burrards, is the one stable thing in her life. Everything else is new or changing: a new school, a new stepfather. When Anne, Alecia's friend and the Burrards' best player, decides to quit playing, Alecia decides to fight to keep the team together. She soon learns, however, that life's hardest matches are fought off the soccer pitch.