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Just Like Rube Goldberg
Ages 3–8 · 2019
Bookroo's summary
Ari Fish's luck seems to change when he finds a rare soccer card and becomes the starting goalie. But when the card is stolen, tensions rise as his best friend and a new teammate accuse each other. With his team on the brink of collapse and his skills faltering, Ari must navigate the chaos to discover what it truly means to be a hero and how to create his own luck. Can he unite his team before it's too late?
From the publisher
Twelve-year-old Ari Fish is sure that the rare trading card he found has changed his luck and that of his soccer team, but after the card is stolen he comes to know that we make our own luck, and that heroes can be fallible.
At a glance
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- Words
- 55,970
- Reading age
- 8–12
- Audience
- Juvenile Reader
- Lexile
- 550L
The author
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The fine print
Book details
Reading levels
- ATOS
- 3.7
- F&P level
- ~N
- AR points
- 8
- AR interest level
- MG
- AR quiz
- 145562
Publication
- Published
- January 1, 2011
- First published
- June 1, 2011
- Publisher
- Dial Books for Young Readers
Edition
- Language
- English
- Type
- Chapter Book
Identifiers
- ISBN
- 9780803735200
- LCCN
- 2010028800
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