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Flint, Shamini

Ten: A Soccer Story

159 pp. | Clarion | May, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-85001-9 $16.99
(3) 4-6 In Flint's semi-autobiographical middle-grade debut set in 1986 Malaysia, eleven-year-old Maya, a passionate soccer fan, tries to start a girls' team at her school and worries about her parents' fraught relationship. Family, friendship, and school dramas overlap with half-Indian, half-English Maya's experiences as a minority in her small town. Succinct narration conveys immediacy, and Maya's competing impulses of insecurity and determination are well drawn.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross

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