The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain

Gracie Faltrain is doing fine. Her soccer team is off to the national championships, she's just about to capture the boy of her dreams and she's well on the way to being 'in' at school. But Gracie is about to learn that life is not always fair.First her best friend Jane leaves the country. Then there's an unfortunate event involving her tongue and her dream-boy's ear, which makes her a laughing-stock at school. When she finds out that the boys don't want her on the soccer team any more, she thinks life can't get any worse, but she's wrong. Her parents have news of the worst possible kind.

Within days, Gracie is floundering. No friends, no soccer, no love-life - and perhaps no family - add up to one confused and angry Gracie. Is there show more anything she can do to make things better, or should she just resign herself to her new screwed-up life? show less

Gracie is the only girl in her school’s soccer team but this novel isn’t about soccer – its about sharing and coping and opening your eyes to the people around you. Each small chapter is written by a different character – but Gracie is the main one coping with her father’s threat to divorce her mother & the team’s threat to kick her off because she never passes the ball. As well as that she has the hots for Nick as well as an on-going battle with the school’s other queen of cool –Annabelle. Will she survive after sticking her tongue in Nicks’ ear and getting kicked off the soccer team in one week/ And what of martin who she sees as a friend but who loves her desperately? p.43 –47 Jane has left for UK & Gracie is mean show more to Alyce who asks her to be her partner show less

Gracie loves to play soccer, and this is the story of her year at High School and her attempts to be accepted into the boys soccer team.

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