Alecia's Challenge (Sports Stories Series)
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781550286502
Subjects: Social Situations - General; Stepfamilies; Juvenile Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Sports & Recreation - Soccer; Sports & Recreation - General; Social Issues - General; 316; 326; 328; 66; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Miscellaneous; Adolescence; Fiction; Friendship
First sentence: Are you really freaked about tomorrow, Anne?" Alecia whispered to her friend.
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.