Soccer 'Cats #4: Hat Trick [Paperback]

Grade 2-4-This well-written series successfully combines soccer action with good sportsmanship and family values. The characters seem like real people with flaws and problems. Hat Trick focuses on Stookie Norris, who desperately tries to score three goals in every game after his older brother is featured in the local paper for doing just that-scoring a hat trick. Only his shots matter to him because the more he takes, the more likely he is to achieve his goal. It takes a wise coach and a good friend to make Stookie into a team player. In Secret Weapon, Lisa is self-conscious because she is short, which makes it difficult for her to make a throw-in. When her coach discovers that she has gymnastic ability, he encourages her to work on a secret-weapon flip throw that helps her team gain points. One black-and-white ink illustration appears in each chapter. Facial expressions convey the characters' emotions and pictures of the field action capture the excitement of the games.
Barb Lawler, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
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Stookie Norris's brother Greg scores three goals in one game and appears in the local paper. Greg insists that strikers should always score a hat trick in every game. Stookie runs wild chasing the ball during the next game but is it the best way for him to play?

Matt Christopher is the best-selling name behind more than seventy-five sports novels for young readers, including the Peach Street Mudders baseball series of chapter books.