The Ultimate Goal (Good Sports League #1)

by Tommy Greenwald (Author) Lesley Vamos (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

A funny, heavily illustrated new chapter book series about sports and sportsmanship by the acclaimed author of Game Changer

Ben Cutler loves everything about soccer! He's got a great team, and they have the best pre-game chants and half-time jokes. He and his best friend, Jay-Jay, even invent dances for when they score a goal! And Ben is good at soccer. Like REALLY good. Too good for a casual rec team. Soon, he's recruited for a travel team. His new team plays amazingly well, but they take soccer super seriously. No pre-game chants, no juice-box breaks, and the most important rule of all: NO DANCING. Even though his new team is winning all the time, Ben is left to wonder: Is winning all that matters in the end?

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Freddy states the moral up front—sports should be enjoyable—and this fast-paced, heartfelt story bears out the message. Good-hearted sporty fun.
Tommy Greenwald
Tommy Greenwald is the author of Game Changer, Rivals, and Dinged. Game Changer is on 19 state lists, and was a YALSA Top Ten pick and a Junior Library Guild Premier selection. Rivals was also a Junior Library Guild selection and a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Greenwald is the author of the Crimebiters! and Charlie Joe Jackson series, among many other books for children. Day job-wise, he is the cofounder of Spotco Advertising, a theatrical and entertainment advertising agency in New York City, and the lyricist and co-bookwriter (with Andrew Lippa) of John & Jen, an off-Broadway musical that has been produced around the country and internationally.
Lesley Vamos earned a bachelor of digital media with high distinction from the University of New South Wales Art and Design, along with an honorary award in hand-drawn animation despite continuing to hold her pencil incorrectly. Vamos has been running her illustration and design business for more than a decade and is passionate about telling stories that put good into the world. She lives in Sydney with her partner, two children, and a small floofer named Penny.
Classification
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ISBN-13
9781419763663
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Publication date
August 15, 2023
Series
The Good Sports League
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV032150 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Soccer
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Soccer
Sportsmanship
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
Sports fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Socc

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