Full name: One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together

Author: Amy Bass Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316396547 0316396540

In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state -- and ultimately national -- glory. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion began to heal old wounds. Taking readers behind the tumult of this controversial team -- and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding -- One Goal is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us. Similar books: Outcasts United by Warren St. John The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins Code Complete by Steve McConnell Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins Firefly by Joss Whedon Making Faces by Kevyn Aucoin The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe Refactoring by Martin Fowler Effective Java by Joshua Bloch Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Shrinkage by Bryan Bishop The Happy Medium by Kim Russo Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice The Absent Superpower by Peter Zeihan Lone Rider by Elspeth Beard Permaculture by Bill Mollison