Saving the Team has an announced first printing of 75,000 copies. For middle-school girls, sports are often as important as friends, school, and boys, and I very much liked the way Alex makes sports an important and integral part of her characters’ lives.”Īs Bookshelf reported in August, Ostby signed Morgan for three novels in a deal brokered by Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment for world English and audio rights. What really appeals to me about the series is that it embodies the idea that you can be a girl and be an athlete. “As a former soccer player and a real fan of the women’s national team, I was very excited to have this proposal cross my path. “Her presence was bigger than ever, and the pitch couldn’t have come at a better time,” Ostby says. The proposal for the series arrived in the in-box of Kristin Ostby, editor at S&S Books for Young Readers, the day after Morgan scored the game-clinching goal in the August 6 semi-final faceoff against Canada. Due from Simon & Schuster in May, her novel launches The Kicks, a series about four soccer-playing girls that underscores the importance of believing in oneself and working as a team.
Women’s Olympic gold medal-winning soccer team, who joins the National Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns this spring. The good news is, Devin quickly makes friends with funny, outgoing Jessi shy but sweet Zoe and klutzy Emma.Here is a first look at the cover of Saving the Team, the kickoff title in a middle-grade series by Alex Morgan, member of the 2012 U.S.
And Devin is easily one of the most talented players. Their coach couldn’t care less whether the girls win or lose. When Devin shows up for tryouts, she discovers that the Kentville Kangaroos-otherwise known as the Kicks-are an absolute mess. After all, some of the best players on the US national team come from California.
If she hadn’t just left Connecticut to move across the country, she would have been named seventh-grade captain on her school soccer team.īut now that Devin is starting seventh grade in Kentville, California, all bets are off. Twelve-year-old Devin loves to play soccer. From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the New York Times bestselling first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team.
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