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Swanson, Julie A.
GOING FOR THE RECORD
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2004.
IL YA
ISBN 0802852734
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 Leah has made the regional Olympic Development Team.  What a great honor.  And she is now a shoe-in for a college soccer scholarship.  All she thinks about is soccer and all her hard work is paying off.  But then she learns that her father has cancer and only a couple of months to live.  Now all the soccer thoughts have been replaced with thoughts of her father.  How will Leah ever come to terms with the reality of her father's inevitable death?
SUBJECTS:     Cancer -- Fiction.
                        Soccer -- Fiction.
                        Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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