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Mendez, Yamile Saied. FURIA Chaple Hill, NC : Algonquin Books, 2020 IL YA ISBN 978-1616209919 |
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Camila Hassan lives in Rosario, Argentina, and dreams of getting an athletic scholarship to a North American university. Her ultimate goal is to one day play fútbol professionally in the United States. Her current reality is a bit of a double life. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. At home, she is the careful daughter and sister living in the shadow of her soccer star brother, her mother’s expectations, and the rule of her abusive father. Camila has kept fútbol a secret, as she knows that her parents would never allow her to play. Unfortunately, she has progressed to the point where she needs parental permission to advance any farther. To further complicate things, a boy she once loved, now an international fútbol star, is back in town and he wants her to give up everything to be with him. Will Camila put it all on the line and follow her dreams? (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2022) |
| SUBJECTS: Soccer players -- Fiction. Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction. Sexism -- Fiction. Families -- Argentina -- Fiction. Argentina -- Fiction. Young adult fiction. Soccer -- Fiction. Family life -- Argentina -- Fiction. |
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