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    Goal!

    By Sean Taylor and Caio Vilela

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    About this ebook

    Soccer—as it is played in different countries around the globe—comes to life in this gorgeously photographed nonfiction picture book, Goal!

    Where there's a ball . . . there will always be someone who wants to play soccer. Whether in Tanzania or Togo, Burma or Brazil, children love soccer. GOAL! celebrates the sport's power to bridge cultural divides and bring together the many and diverse people of the world.

    Filled with fun facts and striking photos, this book is a poetic snapshot of soccer around the globe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781466868717
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    Goal!
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    Sean Taylor

    Sean Taylor is an award-winning author of many books for young readers, including The Dream Train which was selected as a 2024 NCTE Notable Book in Poetry. He and his family live part-time in England and part-time in Brazil, where his wife is from.

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      A look at the global love for soccer, or football as the rest of the world calls it. Appealing illustrated with color photographs of children at play in countries all over the world.