The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams, Quentin Blake (illustrator) Both Booked and The Crossover look very sports- centric on the outside, but on the inside these books are so much more. Like Jason Reynolds’s A Long Way Down and Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again, Kwame’s Alexander’s stories are written in verse. So, if your kid loves soccer, and you’re looking for something for them to read this summer, don’t worry: there are now PLENTY of soccer books for kids to choose from (still jealous): Booked by Kwame Alexander (written in verse) women’s team won the World Cup in 2015 and a gold medal in London, and international soccer games have become more accessible with the internet, soccer is cool, and there are books about soccer, and people proudly wear soccer jerseys, and go to professional soccer games, and it’s awesome!

In the ’90s, soccer was still scoffed at and spurned as a “girl’s sport.” And I’m jealous. But in the ’90s when I was growing up there were no movies or soccer books for kids. Soccer is the second most popular sport for kids in the United States (shhh, don’t tell football fans).

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