The Angel Park kids have just started a new soccer team called the Pride, and fullback Sterling Malone decides to stop playing it safe and finds that the sweetest victories come from taking chances.
Dean Hughes is the author of more than eighty books for young readers, including the popular sports series Angel Park All-Stars, the Scrappers series, the Nutty series, the widely acclaimed companion novels Family Pose and Team Picture, and Search and Destroy. Soldier Boys was selected for the 2001 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list. Dean Hughes and his wife, Kathleen, have three children and six grandchildren. They live in Midway, Utah.
It has been so long since I read this and I can't remember it mostly. It was one of those typical, book fair books for kids - probably at the 3rd grade reading level...basic chapter book. This was similar to my own life and I remember making a connection here. I wanted to play forward and score goals but always got stuck back at fullback.