Hat Trick (10 page)

Alex Morgan
became the youngest member of the US women's national soccer team in 2009 and competed in the 2011 FIFA World Cup. She was the first overall pick in the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer draft and landed a spot on the US Olympic women's soccer team in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, held in London, Morgan won her first Olympic medal, a gold, with the American team. The team beat Japan, 2–1, in a match watched live by nearly 80,300 fans—the largest soccer crowd in Olympics history. She now plays for the Portland Thorns FC in Portland, Oregon.

Also in Alex Morgan's The Kicks series

Saving the Team

Sabotage Season

Win or Lose

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morgan, Alex (Alexandra Patricia), 1989– author.

Hat trick / Alex Morgan. — 1st edition.

pages cm. — (The Kicks ; [4])

Summary: With the playoffs over, Devin and her seventh-grade friends decide to try out for a soccer travel team, but friendships are threatened because not everyone makes it on to the tough, competitive team, and in the meantime the girls are faced with a crisis—budget cuts threaten to eliminate the soccer program at the elementary school Devin's little sister attends.

ISBN 978-1-4814-5096-6 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4814-5098-0 (ebook) 1. Soccer stories. 2. Teamwork (Sports)—Juvenile fiction. 3. Friendship—Juvenile fiction. 4. Money-making projects for children—Juvenile fiction. 5. Middle schools—Juvenile fiction. 6. Elementary schools—Juvenile fiction. [1. Soccer—Fiction. 2. Teamwork (Sports)—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Fund raising—Fiction. 5. Middle schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series: Morgan, Alex (Alexandra Patricia), 1989– Kicks.

PZ7.M818Hat 2015

813.6—dc23

[Fic]

2015004129