milliondollarkick

Million Dollar Kick, by Dan Gutman ISBN: 0-7868-2612-6 c2001 202 pages

Good sections to read aloud: -pages 23-24 where contest is announced -pages 28-29 where they figure out how old you have to be

Summary: Whisper Nelson, the main character, is not athletically talented, so when she hears about a contest that this doughnut shop is sponsoring where you can when a million dollars for kicking a soccer ball past a professional goalie, she just scoffs at it, but helps her younger sister, who is a wonderful soccer player, try to come up with a logo to win the contest. Well, it turns out that you have to be between the ages of 12 and 16 to enter, and Whisper is....but her sister isn’t, so they enter it under Whisper’s name. Well, you guessed it....Whisper wins the contest and has a chance to kick a shot worth a million dollars! Can she learn how to kick a soccer ball so she at least has somewhat of a chance to win without being humiliated....or does she fail?

Fiction--sports; soccer; contests

©Jennifer Lang-WDMS-2002