FAMOUS BOOKS FOR 6TH GRADERS PRO
Off the field, Golden’s dad, once a pro soccer player himself, is now battling ALS, a disease that attacks his muscles, leaving him less and less physically able to control his body every day. Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni is determined to channel his hero, soccer superstar Lionel Messi, and become captain of his soccer team and master of his eighth grade universe…especially since his home universe is spiraling out of orbit. Over the course of thousands of miles, Coyote will learn that going home can sometimes be the hardest journey of all…but that with friends by her side, she just might be able to turn her “once upon a time” into a “happily ever after.” Salvador and his mom are looking to start over. It’s also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash.Ĭoyote hasn’t been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished-the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box-she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive 3,600 miles back to Washington state in four days…without him realizing it.Īlong the way, they’ll pick up a strange crew of misfit travelers. That’s how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation.
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