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Author Bass, Amy, author.

Title One goal : a coach, a team, and the game that brought a divided town together / Amy Bass.

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2018.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  796.334 Bas    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 304 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Summary "In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, ONE GOAL tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state--and ultimately national--glory. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion began to heal old wounds. Taking readers behind the tumult of this controversial team--and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding--ONE GOAL is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Soccer -- Maine -- Lewiston -- History.
Lewiston High School (Lewiston, Me.) -- Soccer -- History.
Somalis -- Maine -- Lewiston.
Lewiston (Me.) -- Race relations.
Lewiston (Me.) -- Social conditions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer.
ISBN 9780316396547
0316396540

 
    
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