Soccer Queens (Sports Royalty)

by Charles R Smith (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
Series: Sports Royalty

The Coretta Scott King Award-winning creator of Hoop Kings celebrates the skill and talent of top female soccer professionals--and pays homage to the legendary US World Cup team of 1999.

Soccer, fútbol, call it what you will--the sport commands worldwide attention, and Charles R. Smith Jr. pays tribute to the sport's greatest US athletes in poems that hum with energy and life. Whether the subject is an escape artist like Rose Lavelle, a rocket like Megan Rapinoe, or the exploits of the legendary '99ers, who kicked their names into history, this celebration of the finesse and ferocity of players from the Women's National Soccer League excels with dynamic rhyme and bold, graphic photo-illustration.

Featuring current and past stars as well as emerging players--in cleats that "churn and burn and fly"--the twelve poems in this rapid-fire collection will inspire young poets and sports fans alike to find their game and be their best.

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The processed photographic illustrations, too, are all action, with the player’s uniform picked out in a punchy color that pops.
Charles R Smith
Charles R. Smith Jr. is the author of sports poetry titles such as Hoop Kings, Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty, Hoop Queens, and Soccer Queens, as well as Pick-Up Game, Chameleon, and the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali. He is also the recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his photographs in My People, an adaptation of the Langston Hughes poem. Charles R. Smith Jr. lives in New York.

Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia. He is the illustrator of many books for kids, and his work has been featured by the New Yorker, the New York Times, the BBC, and more. He also illustrated Islandborn by Junot Díaz, a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor Book. Leo Espinosa lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781536225334
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Publication date
April 11, 2023
Series
Sports Royalty
BISAC categories
JNF042000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General
JNF007100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
JNF054130 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Soccer
Library of Congress categories
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